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    The late bus thing is great, though as I said, it’s a long ride so many avoid it if they can. But it facilitates all the after school help that is key to the success of a lot of the kids. Our school heavily promotes AP for all (hence the tremendous workload in many classes- the teachers are evaluated on the kids’ scores, so they want as many 5s as possible, and some of the kids require lots of extras, it seems). It also allows everyone to participate in extracurriculars and sports, at least theoretically.

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    All of our AP science course are 1.4 credits - 1 period on 3 days and 2 consecutive periods on the other 2 days. One period, 3 days either goes to study hall or another interleaved AP science course. I don't think there are any other 2 or 3 day/week classes.

    When I was in HS, AP Chem was last period each day, then Friday it was the last 2 periods, plus class until 4:30, so a 3 hour lab session. We have a late bus at school now, but no such thing in my day. My lacrosse coach wasn't a big fan of missing 80 minutes of practice every week.

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    In our district, stats are kept of each school's performance on each AP exam. I am thinking that the double periods on AP Biology, Chemistry and Physics C are to maximize those 4s and 5s as well as lab time. Although double period for AP physics C is reasonable since it is two semesters of college credits (Mechanics and Electricity/Magnetism). Easy AP sciences (I.e., environmental, psychology) are single period as are English and Social Studies and foreign languages. AP Calculus is already stretched into two years (AB 1st year and BC 2nd year) for two semesters of college credits

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