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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take all 5 cores all years of high school. Most schools have an option for a 6th core course: take a 6th as a second science. That is done at many top privates and stem magnets [b]and in fact is expected for top kids aiming for anything in-state UVA or harder at these schools. [/b][/quote]

What? Double sciences is not expected for non-STEM kids. My non-STEM kid took the 5 cores all years, but in 11th and 12th their elective 6th core was AP Stats and AP Psychology. [/quote]

DP it depends on the high school. The highest rigor 20 or so students take double science or math in 11th because ours does not have options until 12th for double history. There are no options for 6 cores in 10th due to school requirements for the 6th. Non-stem students who want the top schools are expected to take a second science or math in 11th and take a second something in 12th, history or science or math. The school across town has a lot who do double foreign language in 9&10 then the stem students switch to double sci and math for 11&12. Even the stem ones are expected to take double foreign language the first two years[/quote]

This is just so dumb.  I took double language all through HS and college, majoring in one of them.  But it’s totally pointless to take two years of a HS language — just a waste of time.  The only think you’ll take away from it is the ability to butcher phrases lllle l”where is the bathroom” and “how much does this shirt cost” (and then you won’t even understand the answer.). 
This reminds of how the Soviet Union forced all the eastern bloc kids to take at least a couple of years of Russian.  You will never hear worse Russian than that spoke by the average kid who grew up in Pioland or Czechoslovakia in the 1980s.  Requiring HS kids  to take a couple years of a language they have no passion for is just a waste of everyone’s time.[/quote]

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