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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dual enrollment was invented to prop up community colleges as their enrollment numbers have been suffering for the past decade. It also fills in the gap from our lagging k-12 system. Community college is simply what 11th and 12th grade was a decade or two ago.

If your student attends a rigorous k-12, dual enrollment is not attractive or necessary. [/quote]

Why not? Do rigorous k-12s offer Linear Algebra and Differential Equations? I have a gifted math student who started with DE classes in 10th grade, when he took a more advanced Calculus, then Linear Algebra, then Differential Equations. These were not offered at his school at the time.

My other son took DE classes in Gen Ed subject matter after the debacle that was the online AP exams in 2020. He had to take one of the exams twice when he wasn't able to submit his answers the first time and it was hugely stressful. We didn't want to take the risk the next year. Another benefit for DE classes, as opposed to AP, is that the course is covered in a semester, rather than a year. That means you can take two DE courses in the time it takes for one AP class. The semester nature of DE classes was appealing last year when high schools used the semester-based block scheduling, which meant that if you had an AP class in the fall, you didn't take the AP exam until the Spring

Finally, in my county, students receiving FARMS take these DE courses free of charge. Everyone else pays half of what the courses would be at CC. Maybe it's not the best path for the very top schools, but most schools do accept these classes for credit and the cost savings is huge. [/quote]

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