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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do high school parents think of the physics first science curriculum at Holton?
Did it work for your girls? Did it get them to like physics and then take more advanced physics later on?[/quote]

Love it—Freshman Physics teacher is a favorite and definitely made my daughter more interested in science. It has a good combination of instruction and hands on activities (ie egg drop, etc). She’s since taken Honors Chem and is in Honors Bio. She plans to take Advanced Physics senior year. [/quote]

So physics is not taken AFTER geometry or algebra II??? It’s taken freshman year? How much math is used then? [/quote]

It is a conceptual class. Very low level of math needed [/quote]

Why bother?  No other school does this. Is it a way for a liberal arts person to put a watered down version of high school physics on their transcript and hope a college accomplishments thinks it’s normal HS physics? [/quote]

Holton has a well developed science program and offers regular and honors Physics in 9th and Advance Physics as a choice normally in 12th. They feel like it’s an engaging, everyday science class that will foster a love of science in 9th which was true in my daughter’s case. Students then take chemistry or honors chemistry in 10th, biology or honors biology in 11th. In 12th there is advanced physics, advanced chemistry or advanced biology, environmental science. They also have additional science electives (microbiology, macrobiology, forensics, etc). There is a STEM scholar designation and science research program.  There might be things to complain about at Holton, but the science program is generally very highly regarded.

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