You have been the most help. I am very thankful
that you took the time to reply. And you said
several things much better than I did. And I
am in agreement with all of them. There seems
to be many more younger kids on this site. But
for sure will run into the high school problems.
AP courses are hard to understand. Serena was
allowed to take AP biology as a freshmen, but
we turned that down and she took and honors
course then the AP course the next year. I think
we thought the AP courses were really college
level and now think they are a little under that.
But we would do the same thing again. We wanted
to be sure she really understood Biology. We
are doing the same thing with Chemistry. This
does not lead to the best GPA but a much better
job of learning the materal, and more likely a
5 on the AP test.
You are right about enjoying the courses. We did
not want her to take French; Latin for sure; but
she wanted French. That was the best thing we
did, let her do what she wanted to do. If you
enjoy the course you will do better and study
more. She loves French; and only now we decided
to let her take 5 years of French with the last
year the AP course. Again hard on the GPA but
much better at learning the language.
I know burnout can occur in college and I am
sure high school too. So again thank you.
