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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AP Physics 1 is one of the more difficult AP courses. It's not about the math level - it has a lot of deep conceptual reasoning that is challenging for younger teen brains. College Board adjusted it to remove a couple of units that were sort of disconnected, so there should be less time pressure next year. It's not a course I would recommend for 9th grade, but Blair does its own thing.

-AP Physics 1 teacher[/quote]

I asked a Blair counselor about this and they said don't worry about it, the kids they place do well. Do you think this is true for the most part? Any idea why Blair does this?[/quote]

If your kid is a good student - and they are, bc they were placed in this course!- they’ll be fine. MCPS is knowingly putting 14/15 year olds in courses like this and they do fine. The teachers know who they’re teaching to. My kid took AP US history as a freshman, and my son took AP Physics as a freshman. They survived and weren’t traumatized.  I think they would have learned MORE and gotten more out of these courses as 16/17/18 year olds, but I would trust the system. I didn’t put my one kid in AP physics as a freshman thought they recommended it, and I regret it. It put her on this lower slower track that bored hee to tears and messed up her schedule. I would go for it and you can always pull out early in the fall semester if it doesn’t work out. [/quote]

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