Yeah, I mean she got 5's on both halves of physics.

She took both classes in one year. She's pretty mathy, and she'd already taken ap chem and bio, so she's BTDT with science APs.

Another vote for Kernion >> Lanctot. My dd started with Lanctot for mechanics then switched at the semester to Kernion for e&m and was glad she did.

Except our kids. Our kids are awesome. 😏

I remember this "school box" was on our school supply list for several years of elementary school in the 1970s. Not sure what happened to them.

WTMA offers high school biology.

The AoPS MathCounts/AMC test prep classes are fun and they have less homework than the core subject classes. They were the only online AoPS classes I had my students take. The rest was self-study with textbooks at home. I'm not sure how competitive MathCounts is in your area, but if your student is serious about improving, he will be much more efficient if he studies on his own. All of the textbooks you mention will be good preparation. Around here, MC competitors have studied all those topics (algebra, geometry C&P, NT) in middle school if not sooner. On his own, he can cover the material much faster than if he's constrained by the class schedule. You say you don't let your students do math practice in the summer. So I'm not sure what else you have in mind to prepare for MathCounts, if not math?

Isn't your daughter a future biologist? AP Gov has a reputation for being one of the easier APs. So barring a schedule conflict with her sport, it should be easier to squeeze in, at least compared with other AP exams. If she's interested in environmental policy or activism, this might dovetail nicely with that interest, especially as far as LACs are concerned. (Not so much with state schools if they are more by-the-numbers.) OTOH, if she's so far advanced in her coursework and understanding of government, given APUG is so easy, it may seem weird to adcoms, depending on how savvy they are. (They may not be all that savvy.) If you are doing this to obtain college credit, you just need to make a quick check of her list of colleges to see what they will award for this particular exam. Will obtaining credit help her in her college plans by helping her skip over some prereq's and go straight to more advanced poli sci coursework? Finally, does she enjoy taking AP exams? (Not being facetious here; my dd's love them.) Or will she dread them?

Just yesterday I had a student tell me she thought a better name for a rhombus would be a "squarellelogram" owing to its equal sides. I agree!

My dd took a USACO once, but it wasn't a big hit here. I doubt USACO will net you college credit, however, doing well on USACO will make college programming classes pretty easy. If he can, I'd have him do both USACO and CC. Sorry, I didn't realize he was in 6th grade. So you'll need to figure out if he's developmentally ready for an exam like AP. There's a fair amount of writing to do. He'll need to write out his programs on paper, which is fairly hilarious given that programs are written on the screen and then you can debug those missing punctuation marks. If you think he can handle it, then go for it. But if you think he isn't mature enough (understandable at that age), I'd wait and have him take it later, so he can have a positive experience and get a 5 without much stress. In fact, I just wouldn't push an AP on him at this age unless he really wants to do it. He can have fun with his python now and in another year or two he can buckle down and take the java course. Who knows? Maybe AP CS will switch to Python by then? I'd skip Principles. If he doesn't have any reason to learn Java, then I'd wait until he wants to take AP CS A. Have fun with python. It's such a nice easy language to use.

Apparently Kiwis are also tolerant of homonyms.

Do you reflect his feeling back to him so that he feels heard? Something like: "It must be disappointing to not reach your academic goals." If you're doing that and he's still venting, then time to channel his energy into prepping for next year. You might suggest one of Cal Newport's books for college students. He offers some solid study strategies.

After Intermediate Python at AoPS, he can easily do AP CS A. My daughter started the edhesive class in January and had plenty of time to finish it before the exam in May. It's an easy first AP exam to take and will remove the scariness of AP exams in general. But if that sounds too easy he can take an Andrew Ng AI class on Coursera.

I agree with FuzzyCatz. Grade inflation is rampant in the high schools. Congratulations to your student!

The students you are looking for are at the library studying. Or in a lab doing research. Or doing something productive with their time. Where are you looking? And what does an academically inclined and driven student look like? Saying this, I'm as guilty as the next person about stereotypes of what a serious student should look like.

I view "got out" as some sort of verb phrase. Like you could replace it with "displayed" or "exposed." So then "his license" is the direct object of "displayed" here replaced with "got out" which is colloquial.

Did you damage the book, or did it arrive damaged from Amazon? If it arrived damaged for any reason, I'd return it, making sure you select the option that you are returning it because it was damaged. I'd hold a high standard here, just to protect yourself. Otherwise, you may be forced to purchase the book. (Ask me how I know.)

I'll share a little counselor letter hack in case someone finds this helpful. I picked this up from another homeschooling mom/friend of mine. Normally you are allowed 2, maybe 3, LoRs when applying to university. Here's a way to sneak in a few more. Over the course of my dd's middle school and high school career, we would occasionally receive nice emails from teachers, mentors, supervisors, other moms about something that she did. I saved these emails over the years and then we were sitting down to write her counselor letter, I incorporated some quotes into the letter. Now you have a way to sneak in additional outside validation in abbreviated form. Here's an example I'll make up. Susie is a caring person who looks out for younger teammates. Her coach Coachie McCoacherson wrote to me, "I was so grateful to have Susie on the team because she really helped the younger students quickly feel welcomed on the team." We've also seen Susie help the weaker students in her 9th grade English class, tutoring them in the evenings.

I've also heard anecdotally about various requirements not being met and the student is still admitted. No matter what they say, I'd submit her application anyway. (I wouldn't even bother calling and asking.) They may not even know whether they'd waive a testing requirement unless they know who they are waiving it for. If she's planning on taking the exams by the end of senior year, they may even make a provisional decision contingent on her test scores ultimately. Good luck.

Pick a genre that she enjoys and read books in that area: dystopian, memoir, science non-fiction, Shakespeare. Compare and contrast. Sounds like fun!

This isn't helpful at all. But it's hilarious.

@square_25 Do you get the sense that some % of your students have already taken a class at the B&M school, and are taking it again at AoPS for extra challenge?

Would you mind sharing your experience in this regard on this thread? (No dog in this fight; I'm just curious.)

My dd won't take any APs this year mainly because she's already taken all the ones she wants already. So it might look like a step down after last year (AP physics C, APUSH, AP calc, AP lang & comp), but she's continuing to take advanced challenging classes.

Square: are the long wait times between posting due to waiting for TAs to help struggling students? It seems like there can be a lot of down time between teacher posts.