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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m really glad my freshman is taking APUSH. It’s the first class in MCPS that has made him work and taught him study skills and I’m glad he’s finally getting that. That said, while he’s a stem-oriented kid he really likes history (apush has contributed to that), likes to read, and has always been efficient about getting his work done. After a bumpy first test he’s been doing well. All that said, I don’t think we’ll push it for my second kid who is equally smart but slow and doesn’t like to read. Just doesn’t seem like a battle worth fighting/stress worth causing freshman year.[/quote]

Agree with this.  APUSH is by far the hardest course all of my kids have had in freshman year... but it works because several of the other courses tend to be far too easy/little work.  So there's time to spend on APUSH in 9th.[/quote]

Newbie here - which courses are far too easy/little work? TIA.[/quote]

Honors bio, honors English, Spanish 2, even algebra II. As far as I can tell he has no homework (or plenty of time to get homework done during class), no major assessments, or need to otherwise study in any of those classes. APUSH has been a breath of fresh air - and [b]he actually talks about what he’s learning, which isn’t true of any of the others[/b].[/quote]

Yeah because every high school student would love to talk to their parents about the difference between sin, cos and tan function. Love to talk to their parents in Spanish when they can’t understand it. Love talking about the the theme of some random passage. [/quote]

Both my 8th grader and 11th grader are in Alg 2.  Sin, Cos, tan, limits are all topics of dinner conversation.  They bond over mom not having any idea what they’re talking about.[/quote]

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