Anonymous wrote:I hate DE, and feels it’s a tactic for community colleges to stay alive in an era of declining enrollment.

Not sure why you hate that students are having more educational opportunities. Good for the community colleges that they are adjusting to better serve the gasp! communities they are supposed to support.

From what I’ve seen most of the hate is coming mostly from the IB and to less extent AP crowd that assume they get some patina of selective excellence with a label of advanced coursework. With the DE, that coveted label can be achieved by the hard working masses so in a sense they feel like DE cheapened their kids accomplishments.

I hate DE, and feels it’s a tactic for community colleges to stay alive in an era of declining enrollment.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here- your replies have been insightful thank you for taking the time with your thoughtful replies. I would also like to know what your thoughts are for DE for students who are not taking AP classes. My daughter is of average brightness, but not particularly driven.

M'am, then you should not be considering dual enrollment (or AP/IB) for your child. DE courses are true college courses.

To succeed with college-level work, your child needs to be intrinsically driven, bright, motivated, organized and disciplined. It doesn't sound like your daughter fits that profile so she needs to stay in the high school environment. You can't want this more for her than she does.

You could argue that community college classes are really aimed to serve a broad variety of students including the ones that aren’t the brightest and most motivated. Taking those classes in high school might make it harder, but it really depends on many things like what class, support, maturity etc. overall I think it’s a good experience for most students to at least get a taste of what college is like.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have concerns about their kids being in college classes with adults? I.e Men preying on younger female students?

I did have this concern, not necessarily the predatory scenario you outlined, but the developmental appropriateness of having adults and teens comingled.

That concern is why I opted for my kid to do IB/AP classes at their high school instead.

What’s developmentally inappropriate about having teens and adults comingled? To be honest I think it’s more developmentally inappropriate to shelter the teens from interacting with adults, you pretty much have it backwards. Plenty of teens have summer and part time jobs, hobbies, volunteer etc and interact with adults in appropriate ways, which is part of growing up and becoming adults themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have concerns about their kids being in college classes with adults? I.e Men preying on younger female students?

I did have this concern, not necessarily the predatory scenario you outlined, but the developmental appropriateness of having adults and teens comingled.

That concern is why I opted for my kid to do IB/AP classes at their high school instead.

It isn’t like the kids are 13. Looks like someone is afraid of their child growing up??

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have concerns about their kids being in college classes with adults? I.e Men preying on younger female students?

Would you still have this concern next fall when your child is in college? You sound like a helicopter parent putting a bubble around your child.

It’s a school not a club, if your daughter doesn’t know how to navigate interactions with other adults, she shouldn’t be going to college.

I agree with this 100%. It isn’t like you are throwing high schoolers and adults in a room with no supervision. If your 16 year old child can’t be around young adults how are they going to be successful. How will they get a job?

Most of the adults student there (18&19) were surprised to learn my daughter was in high school.

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have concerns about their kids being in college classes with adults? I.e Men preying on younger female students?

I did have this concern, not necessarily the predatory scenario you outlined, but the developmental appropriateness of having adults and teens comingled.

That concern is why I opted for my kid to do IB/AP classes at their high school instead.