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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At my child's school your child cannot just sign up for AP NSL. It's by recommendation only and DD did not know of a single child who was recommend from their cohorted honors history class in 8th grade. There were definitely some but not among the 20 or more people who were talking about it. [/quote]

Our DS was not recommended for freshman AP Gov after getting all “A’s” in the ”magnet style” history path in our home MS, nor was our DD that came from the humanities magnet and literally won a national award creating a documentary on the role of the government and also got straight “A’s”.  I am utterly perplexed on who gets recommended for AP gov as freshman.  It was especially infuriating when both of our kids Honors History teachers told them freshman year that they should be in AP Gov and were in the wrong class.

I think we weren’t quite aware enough as parents to fight the system since our kids are twins.  Also the advising at our HS is terrible.  Like egregiously bad.[/quote]

OP here - oh, that's surprising. I did not realize this and that's terrible - so many things are uneven across our district and so many important things are not well known or publicized.

So our kid would be in the Clarksburg APPs program (sorta a honors program with some specialized classes), and those kids all get put into AP NSL in 9th. It turns out they also have to take "APPS" Biology and "APPS" English (I didn't realize this when I posted the original post) so there's actually not a lot of wiggle room on the order of Sciences.

Questions:
How much HW in AP Comp Sci Principles?
What's the dance class order (one pp mentioned it)?  I think our kid needs at least one class every year that requires movement.

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AP Comp Sci is not necessarily at lot of homework but you do need to understand the principles and be able to read, review, and write out the actual code.  How tough the class is depends on the teacher.

Students only need 1 year of PE. [/quote]

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