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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My family will be attending the information session tomorrow night at the Rockville MC campus.

My understanding is that this is a version of dual enrollment. The students take all their courses at Montgomery College and receive both credits toward high school graduation AND credit toward an associates degree at the same time.

To the poster who asked why a kid would want to do this, the reason we are considering it is that most of the courses offered at our son's high school are not challenging enough. He is in two AP courses this year (AP Calculus and AP Comp Sci Principles) and doing well in both. The AP Calc class is really the only one that feels the right balance of challenging and interesting for him this year. Chemistry, English, History.. even the AP Comp Sci Principles courses are all very easy/boring to him.

We are looking at the Math concentration offered at Rockville's campus: https://catalog.montgomerycollege.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=9&poid=2303&returnto=1840
This shows recommended courses: https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/curriculum/partnerships/Dual_Enrollment/Science%E2%80%93Mathematics%20Track%20AS%20-%2003.15.2018%20.pdf

I had not realized this was the first year that this was being offered across the county. I would love to find students who have already participated in something like this at MC.[/quote]

And you think a comminity college English class will be more challenging than AP English?[/quote]

I have not taken English at Montgomery College but I've taken a few 100 level classes and for the most part they were filled with people whose written and spoken English would not have passed muster with my 9th grade english teacher, let alone my AP teacher. I generally found 100 level classes to be a joke at MC. No way would i encourage my kid to take low level classes there for the "challenge".[/quote]

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