A Displeased Body of Students

The letter below arrived in my email a few days ago. I was aware that students in the Academy were being forced to take AP Biology regardless of their major. Students complained about this to the Board on several occasions. Silly me. I thought this meant Academy Students only. Wow! What next?


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October 10, 2018

Good evening, below is one of the many things student would like to be addressed or put out there in any way shape or form. Thankyou!

: Recently, there has been a huge change within Dwight Morrow High School. Before elaborating I would like you to know the situation before these changes were made, students had the chance to enter AP or Honors classes. As of now all honors classes have been combined with AP, this is a huge jump especially if your coming from a regular class. Moving from Ex: Biology to AP chemistry. AP stands for Advanced Placement, the material in this class is college based. -Imagine this, one day your in a 9th grade chemistry class and the next your thrown into an entirely different subject with an entirely different criteria than you were aware of. All students within honor classes who now have AP were not notified of this change until the first day of school, many including myself are struggling to keep up. My question is why did you feel the need to combine two completely different courses? How did this benefit the students… other than lowering their gpa that is. Bring back honors.

Sincerely,

A displeased body of students.