My daughter will be going to what seems to be a pressure cooker of a high school, and the kids take tons of AP classes. She will be (hopefully, waiting on acceptance) in the International Spanish Academy which means she will take AP Spanish Language, AP Spanish Lit., AP English, AP US History, AP Govt and Econ., maybe AP European History? They start right away freshman year with AP Human Geography. I think she will enjoy those classes. It will be harder to determine what to do about the math and science. I don't want her to be overloaded, particularly in areas she isn't passionate about. My impression is that they are for sure not dumbed down, nor are they drudgery, and that the teachers in general are very engaging. But there is only so much time in the day and she will also be doing orchestra and theater, so I suspect she will decide on her own not to take AP math and science as she progresses.
