<p>My D. a sophomore is going to schedule for junior year soon. She goes to a small HS with one track for Science in Honors and one track, non-honors. The offering are very small. The Honors track is F-Biology, S-Chemistry, J-Anatomy, and Senior-Physics. That’s it, there are no other options. My D does not want to take Anatomy, she has been dreading Junior year since she was a Freshman because of this. </p>
<p>I have a call into her GC to see if she can do Post Secondary and take Chemistry at the local university. I don’t know if they will be open to this idea or if it will fit into her schedule. Very few student take PS, mostly I believe, because the GC doesn’t encourage it. She has no interest in Anatomy, she doesn’t want to be a doctor. Also she has real problems with memorization and feels anxious taking tests that require regurgitating information. </p>
<p>I wonder if anyone has taken this track before and was it successful. My other quesiton is that her Dad thinks that she should take Anatomy. He thinks that it is a class that everyone should know and that it will work on her weaknesses. But I know if she takes Anatomy I will hear about it all year and I will be the one running interference between her and her father.</p>
<p>My D has even proposed taking Pre-calc in CTY long distance so that next year she could do Calc and Physics. I don’t know if the school would go for that either. They do not as a rule want kids to accelerate. She is receiving an A in Algebra II and is not challenged but it is not a very high A. Meaning she has 95% average and to accelerate I think that they will tell her she needs to have almost a perfect average. The pre-calc teacher is much easier than the Algebra II teacher and I know that she will be bored but I don’t know how to convey that to the school.</p>
<p>I feel that I am walking a tight rope. What to do that is best for my child while listening to my Husband and dealing with the school. I feel in a quandry and will be happy to hear any opinions that anyone would have.</p>
<p>I think anatomy would be very interesting and not just for those who are considering med school, but it is difficult if that is her only choice
what my D is doing is F Biology-S- Marine science-J-Chemistry and S- Physics
for chem for example there are three classes- regular honors and AP.
What is the junior offering for nonhonors?</p>
<p>The non-Honors sequence is F-Biology, S-Botany, J-Chemistry and Senior either Anatomy (the Honors and non-Honors are grouped in the same class with the grading scale lowered for non-honors) or Physics.</p>
<p>I have to say I agree with her re the tests
I was in massage school which required a cadaver anatomy class, and tests that consisted of an outline of a body and instructions to fill in all the large muscles etc, skeletal system etc, were impossible for me.
My school didn’t allow accomodations at that time, but K-12 schools should and I would suggest that she talk to the teacher before she decides completely against it</p>
<p>I would also suggest “Stiff”
a very thoughtful and humorous book about cadavers to perhaps get her to think about bodies differently
even if she doesn’t want to go to med school, she does * have a body*, maybe she can think of it as an owners manual course ;)</p>
<p>would they let her take a study hall? I was thinking she could enroll in an online class (even AP biology or AP chemistry) and use the study hall time for that.</p>
<p>there are tons of places to do online classes (in addition to CTY – which is excellent).</p>
<p>Then she could go on to take Physics in Sr. Year.</p>
<p>By the way – is Physics Calculus based? Is that why she has to be taking Calculus concurrently? Because if it is Algebra based Physics, she certainly has enough math to do that.</p>
<p>Is the anatomy class required for high school graduation? It is obviously not a pre-requisite for physics, could she take physics next year instead? DS completed Honors Physics sophomore and did fine, but it was not calulus-based. The AP Calc C he is taking now is calculus-based. Does the school offer an earth science or environmental science class? </p>
<p>Could she fill in the opening for anatomy with an additional social science or possibly another foreign language. Daughter last year ended up with Spanish and Latin. </p>