<p>I know. My school does not allow students to take summer courses to be more advanced because the inferior students who fail all their classes are the ones tanking all the resources. This is pretty much due to as people mentioned above, the school’s job is to get everyone a basic education. </p>
<p>IMO, instead of putting students with several different levels abilities in a whole building, they should just segregate them by ability, such as instead of creating five schools with student from all across the spectrum, they should put all of the top fifth in one school, the students between the 80th and 60th percentile on another one, and so on. None of the schools of my county offer AP Chemistry because of this, but if we had a school where the top fifth of the students attended, there would certainly be a reason to add this class, especially as very few people would be wasting resources by taking the physical science course we offer(basically, it’s a standard course that just skims over small concepts of chemistry and physics, so it’s pretty much there to help the non-overachievers fill their graduation requirement.)</p>