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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Open enrollment means that to the extent there is a course sequence, barefly passing the previous course entitles you to enroll in any level of the next course that is available even though you have functionally zero chance of succeeding in it.  For instance, you passed English 10 with a D and you are therefore entitled to enroll in AP Lang in 11th. Or you passed Algebra 2 with a D and enroll in Precalc Honors.[/quote]

[b]In practice, though, not many kids who got Ds in Algebra 2 want to take Honors precalc.[/b] It’s much more common to see an ambitious kid with a 4.0 bristle at the idea that the school might intervene to prevent him from taking 8 APs simultaneously as a junior. [/quote]

Yes, but that one kid and a couple of others will hog up 25% of your time and energy in extra help, parent contact, remediation, and retakes to no avail. And the ambitious kids' with the 8 APs are constantly whining about the workload, as are their parents who are shocked, shocked! that they have to stay up until 2 AM every night to get their work done.[/quote]

That's actually not the issue IME. Math is actually the one subject where most kids seem to be self-selecting into the right class, or at least only choose the wrong class once. The bigger issue where we are is English and History. The less smart, studious kids still feel the need to take honors english and history and what this has basically done is made it such that there is no such thing as honors in those subjects. [/quote]

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