Had to go to a meeting for Sprat last night so that he can sign up for AP classes at school. We went to this same meeting last year and scared Sprat out of taking any AP classes. He has always taken honors classes and done fairly well at them. I am not sure how other school districts operate their AP classes but ours require the student to first attend this meeting and then fill out an application for each class that they want to take. These applications rival some that I have filled out to apply for a job. Once you have submitted your application and signed it you cannot change your mind. They said this on stage to all of the kids and parents, once you sign you must take the class. I can understand them not wanting kids to back out of taking a class but things do come up and they really should take this on a case by case basis. Sometimes I think they are trying to keep our kids from taking challenging classes, I feel like rather than encouraging them to stretch themselves they are trying to keep them from taking the harder courses for their own sake.
I am so disappointed in our school system lately, between their lack of encouragement for kids to take some more difficult classes to the way some of the coaches behave toward the kids and how they talk so ugly about some of the kids in front of their peers. This is leaves a nasty cloud hanging over this school system for me.
I really wish we could go back to the day when teachers actually taught and educated our children in subject matter and not in how to take a stupid test!!!!
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