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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay that's ridiculous. And I have a kid at TJ, so I have an incredibly high threshold for iridiculous. [/quote]

My kid graduated from TJ recently and there are good number of TJ students graduating with 15-18 APs and post APs.[/quote]

That's BS, and there is no way your kid graduated from TJ recently, or you would understand that that is not how the curriculum works.  TJ teaches a lot of classes at the AP level, but does not offer the class as an AP (Foundations of CS, 10th grade world history, Geosystems, Physics 1, Research Stats), And it adds in a lot of extra requirements to graduate that are not offered as APs-- research stats, CS, design tech, senior lab and pre-recs, Geosystems.  TJ kids average 7 APs/post APs.  Some do more. Some do fewer.  But, assuming you truly max out what is possible given the graduation requirements (start in Calc freshman year, and place out of Foundations CS, and place into language 3, and take 3 years of summer school and take EPF as an 8th class) you can theoretically hit 16:

Summer before 9th: Research Stats
Freshman: 2 APs (Calc and AP CS because you placed out of Foundations).  Plus IBET, PE, and Language 3.  AND EPF as an 8th class
Summer: Chemistry
Sophomore: 4 (post Calc math, Chem or Bio, AP foreign Language, and one more), plus Humanities (2), and PE 
Summer: 4th history (cannot be AP)
Junior: 5 (Post Calc math, AP Physics, APUSH and 2 more). Plus English and one Lab Pre-Rec
Senior:  4 (English, Government, post-Calc Math, and two more). Plus Geosystems and Senior Lab.

But, less than 10% of the freshman class goes into Calculus, FCPS kids only comes in with one year of MS language and start over or take Language II, and this only works on some tracks, because any of the engineering or tech tracks do not have APs or post AP (unlike CS, which does).    It would shock me if more than a handful of kids a year hit 15. And those would be some miserable kids. I don't care how much you love to learn. The day only has so many hours, and everyone needs to sleep.

In real life, most kids take no APs in 9th, 1-2 APs in 10th (most kids I know have 1, unless they are in Calc.  The kids in band and orchestra have none), 3-4 in 11th and 3ish in 12th. Again, the school says the average is 7.

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