Community colleges are really well thought of, and supported, in California, and I think that makes the CC path that much more normalized for high schoolers if they need to supplement the courses available at their HS. Poking around on Wikipedia suggests that roughly 4.6% of California’s population is attending community college in some fashion, where equivalent percents (for some random states) are 2.5% for VA, 2.1% for TX, 1.6% for MA. Most of those California CC students aren’t high schoolers, of course, but hopefully those percents convey how normalized CCs are here.
This is definitely true and frustrating.
Our local CC recently amended their policy to allow 9th grade and up to take up to 11 units a semester (more if you petition, but 11 units is already a lot combining with a full HS curriculum). So our HS matches that policy. Although S24 had his paperwork processed since the 8th grade back when covid started.
Our friends who are a little more north, and more affluent, with large HS higher ranked and full of AP offerings limit CC enrollment to 11th grade and up and only 6 units a semester to discourage DE.
11 units limit is the norm in our area and many start CC in middle school or early high school
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Oh man, and our kids are competing with your kids?
We can’t win.
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Are these kids taking 11 in addition to a full course load in middle or high school? Or are they taking fewer classes at school?
That probably explains a lot of the difference.
Yes, it makes it so easy. Taking a couple of short 6 week summer online courses each year was a no brained for my kids.
11 units (max) are way too much in addition to full school schedule… Usually 3 or 6 units per semester
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