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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. To the PPs above with the helpful long posts, thank you so much for this. I will definitely take all of your points into account, especially about tempering my expectations around grades and the EF coach. Were there any particular AP or honors classes that were good for your kid who is going to study engineering? My son also wants to study engineering and I feel like not only do I have to figure out how to make school 'work' for him --- but also how to take the 'right' classes to get into an engineering degree. It is a lot even though I work in a school. I am an ELA teacher in VA and just don't know that much about math and science in MoCo.

To the PP who keeps insisting that these kids should not take advanced classes. Let me repeat - your attitude damages children. These students die emotionally of boredom and give up on school without the right help and right challenge. Please read this and consider it: https://qz.com/317309/how-some-of-americas-most-gifted-kids-wind-up-in-prison[/quote]

I'm the PP whose 2E senior son is going into engineering. He took AP Physics 1&2, AP Physics C, AP Calc AB, AP Computer science principles, and AP Comp Sci. The rest of his classes were honors level, and he took some tech ed electives. He also stopped his language after 10th grade and took a study hall instead, and that helped him manage his workload (the engineering-focused colleges he looked at didn't require more than 2 years of a language). He loves calculus and physics, so even though he gets B's in them, he's highly motivated to learn and has always been very engaged in those classes. I'd also recommend joining a robotics team or another type of engineering extracurricular - they're more hands on and a lot of fun for an engineering-focused kid.[/quote]

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