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Question about high school honor classes and band. i'll be a freshman after my 8th grade school year is over

• I'll be a freshman in high school, after my 8th grade school year is over. My mom told me to take all honor classes in my freshman year. I know a good number of people who do that, but nobody in my school, including the smartest kids, are taking all honors next year. I have straight As all the time, and rarely a couple of B+s. It's not the honor classes themselves that i'm worried about- i just don't know if i'll be able to handle the workload. My friend, who is doing all honors, says she's doing ok, and she still has time for other stuff, but she also stays up pretty late. My mom just says that taking all honors in my freshman year will look good for college enterance, but again, I don't know if i'll be able to handle the workload, and I thought that colleges look mostly at your junior and softmore years of high school. Also, I play percussion for the school band, and I don't hate it, but I play either incredibly boring parts, or note filled pages that arne't fun to play at all.

• Answer:

  I am going to cheat her a little and refer you to my previous answer to most of your question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmumJiiFmR74lrw6i9DrWu3sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20080117001550AARAvbi&show=7#profile-info-UK0HFbCyaa Now I will address what you added an hour ago. The formula is simple a B student in a high school honors course can be expected to make a B or C in a college course, but a B student in a normal high school course can be expected to make a C or D in a college course; the difference is that great. It is a requirement of the state that most of the students graduate high school; including those that don’t care. It is the requirement of colleges that the students who graduate be prepared to enter the world market and compete on an even status. Currently the US Government has withdrawn participation in world wide events for its students because they perform so badly, yet we still have some of the best colleges in the world. That means the difference between junior high and high school is like the difference between A and B, but the difference between high school and college is like the difference between A and E. Another words in junior high you are swimming in a luke warm swimming pool, in high school you are swimming in a larger pond of cool water and in college you are tossed into the middle of the Artic Ocean; the difference is huge—it is also sink or swim. Colleges take pride in their failure rate; this proves how tough they are and when one professor in my old college tried to make his chemistry course easier, despite the fact that he wrote the class book used by the department, he was fired. Chemistry was supposed to be hard on purpose to weed out the weak students. This is why honors course are so important because American High School is cheating you and underperforming and then college ignores that and expects you to perform at an international level; with harsh results if you don’t. Another big failing of lower education is to explain how all of education comes together and permeates each other. Every single engineer is going to need physics, and you can’t do that without math. What’s more you need the higher math to realize where the formulas that you use are coming from and at a minimum that takes calculus. Then you have to communicate your observations and findings and if you use a 5th grade vocabulary you are not going to be successful, so writing and English are going to play and important part. Then when you study the history of the field you have to put it into the same frame work of history in general and world history in particular so that is all related and once again you need to communicate this understanding in writing. Let’s look at psychologist, the difference between them and a psychiatrist is that they can’t prescribe medication, so you can avoid chemistry. However, you still need to read technical documents and article; you will need to publish your results and findings. You need to handle your own books and expenses and those are always algebra word problems; if I get paid $20/hour and I have to pay the government 12% of that. Then what rent, electricity, gas, water, and cable TV bills can I afford to pay to live on. How much money will be left for me to pay off a car that I have a 4 year $200/month payment while carrying $500 on a credit card that has an interest rate of 12% plus prime? That is just one of the easy questions. When you get you income tax form and try to figure out your home office you can go nuts. Okay, lets assume that you hire a tax account and you dictate your reports for someone else to type. When you are handed a report that starts talking about the percentages of people who have a certain psychological disorder you need to understand statistics to see if the reasoning is bogus or not. FRONTLINE recently reported a %1,000 increase in the number of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder. Is this because the drug companies are doing a great job of selling antidepressants, or because or current young parents weren’t trained to be good parents by their parents, or is it an improved understanding in the field that more kids do have this problem? I think it is a combination of the three with each one decreasing in order of importance as I listed them. Does that make sense? If not then re-read the paragraph and realize that it is the primary job of drug companies to sell their product. The difference between 4 and 3 years of a language is fairly minor, once you get past the first two years you understand it and you will get better with use. If you live in a region where you can use the language to speak then you can do that on your own, if not then you need extra study. It also depends on the language, English and Japanese are much more complex than Spanish and Spanish and English trace a lot of their roots to Latin. So the question is relative. The true test is can you communicate with a native speaker and not sound like a fool? If you are a psychologist or social worker in Texas and you don’t speak Spanish then you are only going to be able to help 60%-70% of the people who apply, and your pay will reflect that. If you can speak French or German then you might be able to add 0.1% clients, unless you live near Quebec or near German town. Meanwhile if you are an Engineer who can read Mandarin you have increased the number of potential clients by 100% since you can handle all of China. Your choice of language depends on where you live and what people you are looking to work with or for. With the increasing immigration from Latin America I think that Spanish is going to become increasingly more and more important by the time you graduate. Meanwhile, we find that as a psychologist you reach a glass ceiling. You can see others advancing to become psychiatrists, but you can’t because you need the chemistry, the physics that describes chemistry and the higher math to understand those physics. Then you need the biochemistry and all the other course to become a real doctor. Or maybe you get feed up with medicine or get promoted into management. Now you have to understand accounting, law and another wide range of skills. Then once again you reach a glass ceiling find out that most managers go back to school for a masters course so they can get promoted to upper management. High School is when you need to start thinking about your eventual career. A plan in my hometown was just proposed to convert ALL high schools into magnet schools; schools designed to offer courses specialized toward a specific career path. This idea would improve students’ improvement in specialized areas giving them a better chance in junior college, but not necessarily in a major college which looks to produce general students. However, it is one way to try and compensate for our poor school system; you need to find your own path.