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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks to everyone who replied.  DS is extremely strong willed and so have to I pick my battles carefully. If I forced him to drop he would blame me until my dying day for “ruining his life”.

For those who asked, he is taking Calculus AB.

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So you'd rather he ruin his own life?

Absent further evidence, your kid is acting stupid. I wonder in what other ways he walks over you to make bad decisions.

What's his plan for next year and the year after?

If he's going to take BC later, there's no point in doing poorly in AB instead of doing well in precalc and then well in BC.

If he &quot;learned&quot; precalc by himself in the summer, why can't he handle BC?

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Getting a B in AP Calc is not a “life ruining” event. My god, grade inflation has REALLY distorted expectations.  [/quote]

Yes. It really has. When everyone in public schools is rolling with essentially straight As, those Bs in significant classes become a problem. It's ridiculous.[/quote]

There are harder publics out there but the point is the same: Bs and god forbid a c even with a high rigor course load is not going to work out for you when applying to a very highly selective college. It is fine if applying to good but less selective schools if paired with very high test scores. But strategically I think any top student should set up a course load with decent rigor but not so much that you aren’t getting As. [/quote]

I disagree.  Insofar as your goal is a college that has &lt;10% acceptance rate, then you’re probably right.  But I think kids are better served to challenge themselves and stretch.  And getting some Bs is an almost necessary consequence of that.  That is much more important than the name of the college you go to.  But I hear a lot of teachers bemoaning “grade grubbing”. Kids take clases they think they can ace rather than challenge themselves. [/quote]

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