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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regular precalculus is now remedial, "honors" is now regular, and "A/E" is what honors was before "equity."[/quote]

The interesting thing is that not every school has the A/E, so honors is still honors at those schools. But Whitman for some reason felt the need to add a level, pushing the whole ranking "down" one notch. The only reason I can imagine is parents complaining that their kids "needed" honors for the GPA boost, but not being able to handle the rigor, Whitman decided to add a true honors class above it. [/quote]

Ahhh, so at other schools, honors is what A/E is at Whitman?[/quote]

Yes. At other schools, there are 2 levels. On-level and Honors. Plenty of kids who do not plan to major in STEM take on-level. There is genuinely no stigma to it, even among bright kids, particularly because you can still take Calculus after on-level Pre-Calculus. But Whitman kids (parents?) wanted the GPA boost of Honors without the workload, so they added a "Super Honors" variant. [/quote]

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