Too heaby load for Sr. year?

olderwisermom
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:46:02 +0000

Our son’s schedule next year (senior). School is on a block scedule so four classes on alternate days: Honors Latin 4, IB Math HL, IB Language Arts HL, AP American Government, AP Chemistry, AP Physics, TAG Humanities/Language Arts, Speech/Debate.

If he gets elected student body treasurer or selected for the student government cabinet, Speech & Debate will be an EC only and will be replaced by the school’s Leadership class. It will be his third year in TAG Humanities. The curriculum changes each year but first quarter is always a student-planned team community service project and the fourth is writing, filming and producing a 20-minute film.

That’s seven weighted classes but the school only weights a maximum of five, so two are just because he wants to puruse the most rigorous path possible. The only thing that would have made it more rigorous was a full IB diploma but since the IB is in its first year and doesn’t offer Latin, he could not meet the language requirement.

He has promised to work on essays this summer.