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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=pseudonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the new AP seminar?

Are freshman allowed to take AP classes if they want?[/quote]

You can read a description of AP Seminar at the College Board's web site. At TJ, it is replacing Honors English 10. Students actually have a choice of electing to stick with English 10, though I'm not sure how many would want to do that, given that AP classes give a +1.0 boost to the weighted GPA, whereas it's +0.5 for honors.

Freshmen are allowed to take AP classes, though it would only make sense in some narrow circumstances (e.g., if the student had taken Algebra II in 8th grade, they'd be in AP Precalc).[/quote]

There is only one section of English 10 honors and only one section of US VA History Honors this year. Meaning less than 30 students in each class are not taking AP Sem and APUSH. [/quote]

Is that new this year? DC took World History HN 2 in 10th as did all her friends I think. And then took APUSH in 11th. She’s a senior this year though and I know Mumbai added a bunch of AP options. [/quote]

Yes. The new principal said the kids were already doing the same level work as an AP class for English and Pre-cal, so the suggestion was to move students to AP pre-calc and AP Seminar (with World History to match).  The humanities combo of seminar and World History was already being done at Woodson, but the AP seminar was the 'extra' nudge at TJ.  The principal suggested other high schools were doing AP pre-cal and AP seminar, so the TJ kids were at a disadvantage if the AP's were offered -- even though their classes were just as rigorous. [/quote]

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