<p>dragonmom, I hope I did not give the impression that I was writing off earth science! I was writing off MS science courses, at least at our public MS. My son took the earth science book home and read it out of interest.</p>
<p>My son is also accelerated 2 years in math, and he found that algebra II (a prerequisite) was not really required for the CTY physics course. I am not sure about the AP Physics courses, but I was under the impression that some are calculus-based, and some are not. </p>
<p>Marite, our school does not offer AP physics at all, or any calculus-based physics course, to my son’s dismay. We are hoping that he will manage to get into a private school next year, but if he doesn’t, we’ll have to find something for him outside the public school.</p>