Anonymous
08/25/2024 18:57
Subject: Double Period AP Science
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Jesus people - calm down
They are kids. Not robots. Work them all year and now summer classes too. Stop being so f'ing pushy on the academics.
I bet you wouldn't be saying that if YOUR KID was asking for more academic challenge. And if you ever pushed sports or allowed your kid to take lots of competitive sports... then you're a massive hypocrite.
+1
So tired of parents of academically average kids assuming that my kid is pushed to do stuff. If he could pay to take AP Physics 1 in 8th grade he would. The only thing holding him back is MCPS and we, the parents.
Anonymous
08/25/2024 18:17
Subject: Double Period AP Science
Anonymous wrote:Why are some posters so nasty and aggressive?
The OP just wants to know how their kid can enroll in AP science courses without sacrificing other coursework. Others, who have faced or are facing the same issue, are trying to help.
If you feel jealous or insecure, this is not the thread for you.
The magnet program is different, for good and ill. The magnet classes are more interesting and challenging... but the rest of the classes offered depend on the high school, and there is a perception that magnet students face stiffer competition for spots in first tier universities than general ed students do.
Maybe because people are sick of entitled parents who try and boss staff around to get what they want. There are over 160k students. If you want an al a carte high school experience that goes against MCPS advice, go to private.
Anonymous
08/25/2024 17:44
Subject: Double Period AP Science
When I was in high school, I had single period AP Bio (by some miracle we somehow managed to do the labs like every other school in the country, most of which are single period) and I had room in my schedule to take an Anatomy&Physiology class to "go deeper". We even managed to have labs in that class!
Anonymous
08/25/2024 17:41
Subject: Double Period AP Science
Why are some posters so nasty and aggressive?
The OP just wants to know how their kid can enroll in AP science courses without sacrificing other coursework. Others, who have faced or are facing the same issue, are trying to help.
If you feel jealous or insecure, this is not the thread for you.
The magnet program is different, for good and ill. The magnet classes are more interesting and challenging... but the rest of the classes offered depend on the high school, and there is a perception that magnet students face stiffer competition for spots in first tier universities than general ed students do.
The OP just wants to know how their kid can enroll in AP science courses without sacrificing other coursework. Others, who have faced or are facing the same issue, are trying to help.
If you feel jealous or insecure, this is not the thread for you.
The magnet program is different, for good and ill. The magnet classes are more interesting and challenging... but the rest of the classes offered depend on the high school, and there is a perception that magnet students face stiffer competition for spots in first tier universities than general ed students do.
Anonymous
08/25/2024 17:41
Subject: Double Period AP Science
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What's the deal with Door Period AP Science classes, which also have a prerequisite of the Honors version of the course? (Biology, Chem, Physics)
How do high performing science/engineering inclined students get through their course goals, with all this time blocked off in the schedule?
Do they take extra online courses to round out their schedule?
Double Period cuts the school day back to 6 courses, while over at the magnet the students have 8 classes and they are get the classes done in less time.
My oldest is in MS but I am noticing a big problem here as well. They won't be able to take any classes they are interested in (e.g. music, art, latin...) without seriously compromising their AP load. There are also too many unnecessary prerequisites eating into slots for high level classes. HS students should have an option to have 8 classes (3 electives).
So you would have 8 classes in the day instead of 7? Classes would then be shorter and that would hurt those doing AP/IB. Or are you calling for block scheduling to allow for 8 and have fewer transitions during each day?
Magnet students at Blair SMCs get an extra class period each day, a longer school day.
Inexplicably, this is legal.
Not even underachieving URMs get an extended day to close the achievement gap.
Anonymous
08/25/2024 17:38
Subject: Double Period AP Science
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What's the deal with Door Period AP Science classes, which also have a prerequisite of the Honors version of the course? (Biology, Chem, Physics)
How do high performing science/engineering inclined students get through their course goals, with all this time blocked off in the schedule?
Do they take extra online courses to round out their schedule?
Double Period cuts the school day back to 6 courses, while over at the magnet the students have 8 classes and they are get the classes done in less time.
You need to stop this idea of competing with the magnet kids. There's nothing wrong with a double period science and not having 8 class periods. It's actually better to go more into depth with fewer classes!
Slower is not more in depth. Magnet classes go faster and also deeper (even getting double credit for intro science by lying about it being DP on the transcript!), because they expect students to understand things more quickly.
Capable students who are not at the magnet are in pinch. Many take online APs (up to 2 at a time) to supplement.
Anonymous
08/25/2024 17:35
Subject: Double Period AP Science
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What's the deal with Door Period AP Science classes, which also have a prerequisite of the Honors version of the course? (Biology, Chem, Physics)
How do high performing science/engineering inclined students get through their course goals, with all this time blocked off in the schedule?
Do they take extra online courses to round out their schedule?
Double Period cuts the school day back to 6 courses, while over at the magnet the students have 8 classes and they are get the classes done in less time.
My magnet kid took two “double period” classes last year (chemistry and physics). Neither of them were actually double period - that is they took up one class for one sensor only but are clearly identified as “double period”.
What happens in magnet isn't relevant. Nothing special about the magnet programs except parents like you brag.
Seriously. It’s so weird. Whose high school career is it? The kid’s or the parent’s?
Anonymous
08/25/2024 17:20
Subject: Double Period AP Science
Anonymous wrote:What's the deal with Door Period AP Science classes, which also have a prerequisite of the Honors version of the course? (Biology, Chem, Physics)
How do high performing science/engineering inclined students get through their course goals, with all this time blocked off in the schedule?
Do they take extra online courses to round out their schedule?
Double Period cuts the school day back to 6 courses, while over at the magnet the students have 8 classes and they are get the classes done in less time.
You need to stop this idea of competing with the magnet kids. There's nothing wrong with a double period science and not having 8 class periods. It's actually better to go more into depth with fewer classes!
Anonymous
08/25/2024 17:00
Subject: Double Period AP Science
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What's the deal with Door Period AP Science classes, which also have a prerequisite of the Honors version of the course? (Biology, Chem, Physics)
How do high performing science/engineering inclined students get through their course goals, with all this time blocked off in the schedule?
Do they take extra online courses to round out their schedule?
Double Period cuts the school day back to 6 courses, while over at the magnet the students have 8 classes and they are get the classes done in less time.
My magnet kid took two “double period” classes last year (chemistry and physics). Neither of them were actually double period - that is they took up one class for one sensor only but are clearly identified as “double period”.
What happens in magnet isn't relevant. Nothing special about the magnet programs except parents like you brag.
Oh FU you, you must be so nice to be around. The OP specifically mentioned magnet students so I was responding to that.
Anonymous
08/25/2024 16:21
Subject: Double Period AP Science
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What's the deal with Door Period AP Science classes, which also have a prerequisite of the Honors version of the course? (Biology, Chem, Physics)
How do high performing science/engineering inclined students get through their course goals, with all this time blocked off in the schedule?
Do they take extra online courses to round out their schedule?
Double Period cuts the school day back to 6 courses, while over at the magnet the students have 8 classes and they are get the classes done in less time.
My magnet kid took two “double period” classes last year (chemistry and physics). Neither of them were actually double period - that is they took up one class for one sensor only but are clearly identified as “double period”.
What happens in magnet isn't relevant. Nothing special about the magnet programs except parents like you brag.
Anonymous
08/25/2024 16:20
Subject: Double Period AP Science
Anonymous wrote:Jesus people - calm down
They are kids. Not robots. Work them all year and now summer classes too. Stop being so f'ing pushy on the academics.
Yes, we are teaching our kids responsibility. Mine did summer because they wanted to take electives.
Anonymous
08/25/2024 16:19
Subject: Double Period AP Science
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Jesus people - calm down
They are kids. Not robots. Work them all year and now summer classes too. Stop being so f'ing pushy on the academics.
+1, but if you have a naturally academically oriented kid, Health class is basically a form of torture, so it is much better to get it out of the way in 3 weeks in summer.
Several science kids in our HS doubled bio and Chem in 9th. With those, music, math (hon Alg 2, generally although a few in precalc), English, ss, world language. Those kids generally did drop the WL after 10th.
Health ed is torture for students and parents!
Anonymous
08/25/2024 15:20
Subject: Double Period AP Science
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Jesus people - calm down
They are kids. Not robots. Work them all year and now summer classes too. Stop being so f'ing pushy on the academics.
I bet you wouldn't be saying that if YOUR KID was asking for more academic challenge. And if you ever pushed sports or allowed your kid to take lots of competitive sports... then you're a massive hypocrite.
🙄
Anonymous
08/25/2024 13:36
Subject: Double Period AP Science
Anonymous wrote:Jesus people - calm down
They are kids. Not robots. Work them all year and now summer classes too. Stop being so f'ing pushy on the academics.
+1, but if you have a naturally academically oriented kid, Health class is basically a form of torture, so it is much better to get it out of the way in 3 weeks in summer.
Several science kids in our HS doubled bio and Chem in 9th. With those, music, math (hon Alg 2, generally although a few in precalc), English, ss, world language. Those kids generally did drop the WL after 10th.
Anonymous
08/25/2024 13:35
Subject: Double Period AP Science
Anonymous wrote:Jesus people - calm down
They are kids. Not robots. Work them all year and now summer classes too. Stop being so f'ing pushy on the academics.
I bet you wouldn't be saying that if YOUR KID was asking for more academic challenge. And if you ever pushed sports or allowed your kid to take lots of competitive sports... then you're a massive hypocrite.