Dottie,
Our "honors" track is still watered down. My DS13 wanted to reject honors World History because he said it'd just be additional busy work and stupid projects and pretty posters. I wouldn't let him choose regular World History, but I do understand what he means. He thinks he could teach himself better than they could and in less time without the hassle of colored pencils (understand the sassy teenage attitude!). Historically, people have self taught by reading/discussing (didn't Abe Lincoln do that?). But he's chosen to go the public school route over homeschool or fancy prep school, so I think he has to just buck up. As it is, he does just enough work, absolutely no more, to scrape A's.
I do worry additional projects that he deems meaningless will put him over the edge into underachievement.
