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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child attends Humanities so I asked her for her response.

[b]She's never heard people say Humanities is "irrelevant," but it is in-between SMCS and Global in terms of difficulty. Most kids in Humanities and Global think SMCS kids are a bit annoying, so I guess it's just a program differences thing.
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9th grade Humanities consists of three courses -- English, AP Government, and Criticism in the Humanities (which is kind of like a tamer Art History with more writing). The kids "block" for those courses after lunch. They are divided into two classes and they stay with their class as they rotate between each of the three courses. The kids get along well, especially within each class (which are shuffled around a few times a year so the kids get to know each other better). This schedule works well because Humanities has interdisciplinary projects that benefit from the classes' malleability (spending Criticism working on an essay, for example). AP Gov is one of the better APs.

The program is very writing focused with a good amount of art too. The first big thing is Gallery Night, where the kids make their own art exhibits. After that they do NHD, which is a national essay competition (actually entering the competition is voluntary though). After that it goes back to smaller creative assignments. The program is a good fit for a student who's creative, a strong writer, and good at literary and art analysis. The teachers expect a lot of the students, so they need a good work ethic.[/quote]

Lol! My SMACS kid says the same thing about Global. She calls it Kindergarten in HS. The kids in SMACS do not take them seriously. However, the SMACS kids are TOO serious and VERY weird, including my own child. They are bizarre kids and attend horror movies to take their heart rates at different parts of the movie and graph the changes in their heart rates. They are a nerdy bunch for sure. [/quote]

I hope you tell your kid that’s inappropriate to call Global Kindergarten in HS. My son is struggling with a SMCs kid this year who tells him all time how much more difficult his program is but is weirdly competitive with him, he wants to make sure that he does better on his English assignments/tests than my son- but he usually doesn’t. He said on one particular test the kid got up and looked over my sons answers. He doesn’t think he was trying to cheat but told my son he was stupid because he chose a different answer for a particular question. I  have no idea where the teacher was when this happened. My son ended up getting the question right FWIW.

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