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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APUSH isn’t a great class for freshman to take. If they are very strong readers and writers, it’s fine, but I do think that the benefits that come from a class like this are greater if kids take it sophomore or junior year. I didn’t realize some schools allowed kids to take it in 9th.

DD used Yawp 1 + 2 per the suggestion of a friend at private school (where, btw, most kids take APUSH in junior year). Highly recommend. [/quote]

This is why Einstein switched to AP Gov for 9th grade and APUSH for 10th[/quote]

Einstein, rightly or wrongly, is trying to limit AP Gov in 9th, perhaps having had too many struggle with it in recent years.  It is not being made available this year as an option on their course request/registration form for rising 9th graders -- students (or families) have to contact their counselor to ask for it, then the counselor will require feedback from the student's current (8th grade) social studies teacher as to the student's capability before making the switch on the back end.

Gatekeeping of this kind not only tends to favor those in the know, but, if applied similarly to classes which tend to be prerequisites, also tends to limit the size of the cohort which might support more advanced courses in later grades (and in a smaller school such as Einstein, this would become a greater issue than at a larger school).  These kinds of insidious inequities seem rife enough already in MCPS.[/quote]

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