I'm interested to see what others say.
As a parent, I see there is little room for "individualized" in high school programs because the state/fed has so many specific graduation requirements. In my state, there are 24 requirements to graduate, we can only take 6 courses/ year (unless they're half yr courses clearly), specifically 4 English, 4 math, 1 semester state history, 1 semester health, 1 yr PE, 1 yr communication, 3 history/soc stud, 3 science, 7 electives (which usually include 3 more yrs foreign language).
What we wrote was to have honors or "gifted Advanced" or "pre-AP" or AP level courses. For my son, who is interested in econ & leadership, there was something about involving him in leadership opportunities (does this mean student council?). I'd like to see testing out options (he should have tested out/or placed out of 2 courses of English and one of math, but they were/are rigid and unwavering in their requirements of English 9, then English 10, then...
