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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pushy Einstein mom checking in again.  It looks like the great equalizer will be Honors Biology for all.  That looks really new to me.  Thanks to the PP who attached the Grade 9 course selection.  The support class for kids inAPUSH looks new. Is it mandatory?  I would say that the IB kids do end up forming a true cohort.  Then, there’s everybody’s else.  My DC felt that it was difficult to have friends scattered in all sorts of different academic classes.  There were downsides to having students from all different grades in math, science, and foreign language. If the school is trying to have only ninth graders in Honors Biology, that’s probably a good thing.  Most students who are college bound can handle AP gov in 10th.  It’s much easier than APUSH.[/quote]

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From my perspective, AP Gov, which is a semester's worth of college over a year, for a kid who has been in high school a year and proved themselves ready for a challenge, seems totally different from APUSH, which is a year's worth of college in a year, for a 9th grader.  My kid has a younger sibling who I could see putting in APUSH in 9th, because he's been doing high school level work by choice on his own since he was 7.  But I wouldn't do it for a kid who was appropriately challenged by middle school content in middle school. I also think APUSH is way too much breadth and too little depth, but that's just me. [/quote]

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