My New Stats

[marciemi]

Certainly having a freshman in high school take AP Chem and AP Calc is far out of the ordinary.

The biggest problem we have around here with the May exams is that our spring sports are in playoffs. My daughter had the district track meet the weekend after 3 AP Exams adn the county meet the weekend before.
That meant she got home from track practice at 8 pm each night - no time to study during the day. Most other activities and EC's are winding down by AP exam time.
Even college students are not moving from 7:30 am - 8 pm with no break during exams.

My son knows 2 other freshmen in AP Chem (they all took regular chem together last year at the HS), and a couple others in Pre-Calc (he is the only one in Calc this year but I know a freshman took it last year), but some of them are in AP US History this year, which he's not. So really it's a tradeoff - he's better at math than history. Agreed it's not the norm, but it's not way out there here either.

I feel for you on the spring sports. Mine were all soccer players which was always fall. My oldest didn't have much trouble with it this year being on varsity, but it was definitely hard on the youngest sometimes on JV because they were expected to attend all the varsity games as well and serve as ball boys or runners for the coach. So usually every Tue, Thu & Fri he would stay after for warmup, then a game at 4:30, then varsity at 6:30 and not get home until 9 having just had a quick hot dog at the concession stand. We'll see how tennis plays out in the spring - haven't done that sport yet! Hoping he doesn't have to attend all the varsity matches (it's a boring enough sport watching just your own kid let alone others - but that's just my opinion! ).