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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If the honors class does is not weighted (i.e., if a grade of A = 4, and not 5 grade points, or whatever comparable system your school uses for grade points), I would strongly argue against taking the class. My experience is that my only B grades were in honors classes (which offered no weighting upside, but far greater workload than the regular college prep version of the class), and a non-Western foreign language that is spoken by 75 - 80% of my classmates as the primary language in the home.

Hardly anything to gain (and you can make up the rigor with AP classes where the 4 - 5 pass rate for the AP test = < 20%), and a lot to lose when your friends are coasting to an A with hardly a broken sweat and you're staring down the barrel of an 89.4% at the end of the term.[/quote]

Thank you, I get conflicted info on weighted vs unweighted for honors, I will research more.
Yes I’d love to know which class his friend group will be taking (and people who are likely to be part of his friend group), but not sure I can get this info.
So far I am thinking he should take regular Algebra 2 but honors Bio (the homework is only 15 mins a day more, and they have to read a novel, but they promise they would study things more in depth). [/quote]

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