FCHS Advanced Placement

If your student is enrolled in Honors and/or AP courses for the next school year, it is important that you read this information.

The decision to take a Honors and/or AP course is a serious one. To take these courses will require the following:

1. Exemplary work habits
2. Exemplary time management skills
3. A genuine desire to learn
4. Personal responsibility for attendance and work requirements
5. Self-discipline and determination to succeed
6. AP students are required to take the AP exam (s) in May.

If your son/daughter enrolls in Honors and/ or AP courses, he/she will be required
to remain in that class at least through the first quarter. Requests to drop Honors and/or AP course after the first quarter will be reviewed by the administrative committee after the student has successfully completed the schedule change form and if there is a space available in the regular class. If a move can be made after the first quarter ends, the grade earned in the Honors and/or AP class will transfer to the new class.

To assist you in determining what might be a responsible academic schedule, members of the Class of 2002 who applied to highly selective colleges averaged six AP courses and seven Honors courses during their course of high school. With this in mind, it is recommended that your child take no more than three or four Honors and/or AP courses per year.

Please contact your child’s counselor by June 23 if you have questions about the above information.

Joan Cassell (A- Casti)
Darla Ellis (Castr-Gom)
Susan Scott (Gon-Ll)
Gaile Collins (L0-O’)
Lala Mooney (Oa-Sell)
Sarah Borrud (Sen-Wi)
Tangy Jackson (Wo-Z/STAR)

Phone (703) 207-4075
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