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NO ONE IS REMEMBERING THAT SOME KIDS LIKE TO LEARN!

Sorry for shouting, but you people make me sick. 
I haven't gone through the American education system and my kids are not yet in high school, but I  loved my classes and spent hours reading my textbooks, especially all the chapters that were not taught in class or part of the curriculum.

If OP's children love to learn and want a challenge, more power to them, and congratulations on their work ethic. They will be the leaders in their chosen field.

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In my mind, an issue is that there are no advanced classes that are not AP for juniors and seniors.  So your kid has a choice of doing AP or being in a slow, tedious class.  My kid is not trying to impress college admissions - just take classes that are engaging and fun.  The problem is that, for some less skilled teachers, AP means teaching the same material but feeling you have to load down kids with inane projects (stupid posters!) that take hours to prepare and provide minimal educational benefit.  [/quote]

+1000. Our county got rid of honors classes (which would be the answer to this issue) years ago in order to game the system. They wanted to move up the ranking in whatever list ranks high schools by the average amount of APs taken per student. By eliminating the reasonable middle man (honors), they forced students to chose between remedial level and straight up AP level courses. [/quote]

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