I Struggle With a Subject - Should I Take the AP Course?

My kids took mostly all honors/AP’s, but were STEM students. When my oldest was a sophomore they eliminated honors English, so AP or regular. My daughter lasted 2 weeks in AP and dropped to regular (which was incredibly easy). Only 1 took AP. Two of my kids only had 1 B in HS, honors English freshman year. It’s not an easy AP, I believe it was time consuming.