Honors Math, worth it if it's a struggle?

[HankCT]

It looks like the current math sequence is honors and accelerated (three years compressed into two years).

It’s called “Honors” on the transcript. I am not sure if that is only because it is compressed, or it is also taught like an honors class. My understanding is that he teaches the class the same way (rules, regulations, amount of work) as he does his normal honors non-compressed class. What I can tell you is that all of the kids in the class were like her. Some kids as freshmen went right into Honors Geometry. These were all kids who took Kumon and such in middle school so they all knew Algebra already before HS, and proved it on the end of year evaluations. My daughter did not go this extra $$ pay to play route, so she and about 59 other kids were put into two honors compressed classes, based on the fact that they did very well in math in MS.

If she steps down from honors to regular level, would it also be a non-accelerated version? If so, there could be additional pros and cons associated with that. Or is regular level also accelerated (three years compressed into two years), so that she would be on the same math track, just non-honors?

I do not think so, our school is in a transitional period. My kid is the guinea pig. There is a 2 year plan where they plan to move ALL freshman to start in Geometry by 2019 or so. At that point there would be a choice of honors geometry and regular geometry. But in the interim, there are 3 tracks for your first two years right now:

1. Standard ACP Algebra followed by ACP Geometry
2. Honors Alg/Geo followed by Honors Geo/Alg2
3. Honors Geo followed by Honors Precal

There is no Honors Algebra for freshman. and soon it will be:

1. ACP Geometry, ACP Precal or ...
2. Honors Geo followed by Honors Precal