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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish the posters replying to this thread would identify their children's high schools when responding! My kids are at Pyle Middle School which also enrolls ALL the kids in honors so it is very hard to know what a "real" honors class in high school will be like. [/quote]

How do you know that all the kids at Pyle get enrolled in honors courses?  I have an 8th grader there, and I know what he was recommended for, but I have no idea about other kids.  Is this posted somewhere?  In my son's case, most of the recommendations were for honors, but one was for AP NSL government.  I don't know the difference between honors and AP, but I guess they'll tell us at the meeting next week --- if anyone has info there, I'd appreciate it.[/quote]

AP GOV is a college level class (supposedly) but it is taught over the whole year rather than 1 semester as it would be in college.  It is generally considered the easiest of the AP and a good place to start.  If the student scores high enough on the AP test at the end of the year they may receive college credit..depends on the college.  My HS does not offer APs to freshman but more than 1/2 of all kids take AP GOV in 10th grade.  One thing to keep in mind is that your child has had 1/2 of US History in 8th grade.  If they take GOV in 9th they will then go back to US History in 10th.  I think it is better to take US History in sequence unless you really want your child to take an AP class as a 9th grader.[/quote]

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