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[quote=Anonymous]I've had 2 kids go through APUSH at Churchill.

On the point of whether APUSH should be a freshman level class, it should not.  I could elaborate, but there is no point because you would get severe push back if you tried to buck the system, and your kid would end up in a freshman class as a sophomore or junior, which they would hate.

On the point of how hard.  My kids both found it to be a lot of work.  I have a STEM kid who is not a reader and that kid found it particularly challenging and time consuming.  Very late nights many nights of the week to prepare.  Lots of complaints and stress.  Eeked out an A but got a 3 on the AP exam (but really, who cares?)  The other kid (more of a reader) also would say it was their hardest class that year, but didn't complain so much.

The redeeming factor is that in my kids' experience, APUSH was the *only* hard class during freshman year.  (They would also say math was hard and it probably was, but it wasn't time consuming.)  Everything else was a cinch and had basically no homework. Thus, the benefit of taking APUSH in their first year is that a) it doesn't necessitate that big time-effort when they are taking other APs, and b) it makes freshman year at least somewhat challenging.  [/quote]

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