In my district, parents will hire a tutor for their child for every class to keep them in Honors/AP. Silly if you ask me. Take advanced classes where there is passion and skill and drive. My oldest insisted on taking AP Chem over our objections. (It is THE killer class at our HS…about 2-3 hours of homework per night for kids that are good at it…longer for others.) He finally agreed to drop down at the beginning of the second semester. But by then the stress of that class hurt his grades in other classes. Ouch.