If you’re asking from a college-bound perspective, then no. Colleges don’t even request information from your pre-high school years. And if your high school doesn’t offer AP/Honors classes, the college will take that into account…if you’re high school is college accredited, colleges/universities know what is offered.

The question is whether or not he’s being challenged. That depends on the teachers, curriculum, so on and so forth. Just because the class doesn’t have a fancy label doesn’t mean that a good teacher can’t spot when a child needs to be pushed further.

Ultimately it’s your choice. Will your child be happy leaving just to get the word “honor” on his transcript that high education will never know about? Do the honor classes at other schools offer a significantly more challenging curriculum that you think your child will benefit from? How do children from that school typically do in high school and beyond (this may be difficult to find out)?

Simply pulling a child out of a school because of the name of the classes they offer isn’t necessarily prudent unless you know the answers to a few other questions.

I went to a high school that had several honors classes, but very few AP classes. I took most of the ones available, but this probably amounted to 4, maybe 5 AP classes. My high school class started with 550 people and graduated with 350. Nevertheless, I was accepted into Brown University where I did well. The year before me a student from my high school went to an ivy league college and we were #1 and #2 from as far back as anyone could remember. The year after me someone went to Standford, and I’m not sure what’s happened since. While not everyone at my school went to college, let alone graduated, nearly all of my friends went to college (from Brown to UCLA to UC Berkley, Davis, etc.).

My point is that it really doesn’t matter where you’re at as long as you take advantage of what is in front of you. What is in front of you certainly needs to have substance, but you need to know what that is before you make big decisions. A lot of it has to do with the child…not the parents, not the teachers, and not the students. Any of these latter people can definitely play a roll, and even a large roll, but personal responsibility is just that…personal. Those who chose to excel generally do. The titles and accolades are mostly fluff…beneficial fluff, but still fluff nonetheless.

That may be a little drastic. They usually have something like a Gifted & Tallented class, they dont call them honor classes in most places. Maybe he could test out of 7th grade and go on to 8th for more of a challenge. Maybe you could have more challenging things for him after school. Hire a tudor. A local community college may offer something he could enroll in. Or home school him.

I think this a two bladed question. It is great you want you son to be in an honor class, but is it to much pressure on your son?

Or enrichment program. Students spend all class time with their peers, but receive extra material to challenge them. Enrichment may be as simple as a modified assignment provided by the regular classroom teacher, or it might include formal programs such as Odyssey of the Mind, Destination Imagination or academic competitions such as Brain Bowl, Future Problem Solving, National History Day, science fairs, or spelling bees you can ask the school for a IEP for your son.

No, honors classes at the middle school level are meaningless. Realistically the honors classes at the high school level are pretty useless most of the time too. What you should really look for is how the school ranks in the district, then the state. If the majority of the students rank in the lower percentile, then change schools. The governing school board office should have that information. When your son gets to high school, it is the AP and BC courses that set him apart.

Ummm, no, not unless he’s bored in class. Talk to him. If he’s getting bored b/c the material’s too easy, then go ahead. But if he is adequately challenged by his classes, don’t make him switch.

I find that there is too much parental pressure on children to take “honor classes”. Many parents pressure their kids to do well too much, so their kids get stressed out and end up being worse students than if their parents had just left them alone. I have heard of many children who have been so overpressured that they turn to drugs to help them cope.

Bottom line: If he’s a good student but isn’t being challenged, then let him decide whether to switch schools so he can take honors classes. But DON’T make the decision for him.

I’m in high school, and I take a few AP courses and the rest honors. However, i feel the difference between honors and academic is slim because a lot is just the teacher who teaches the subject. If your kid likes his school I wouldn’t change it. Just make sure in high school he has the option to take honors courses, because that is where things start to matter and colleges start paying attention.

are you in an area with a lot of choices? or are you in the country? if you’re worried about him getting into college or something because they don’t have honors classes and it’s the closest and most convenient school to you, don’t. but if you’re worried that he won’t benefit as much from easy classes, well then you have to think about that. will he be leaving his friends?

my mom took me and my twin sister out of our hick elementary school and now we go to a high school with like a thousand kids and we’re in all the top classes. i feel we benefited from accelerated learning. it’s a hard decision.

I have news for you…most middle schools don’t have honors classes and that’s a stupid reason to change schools. And anyway, colleges don’t care about any classes before 9th grade anyway.

Where I live, only the highschool makes a distinction between honors and lower levels. I would not be concerned if a middle school did not offer it, but very concerned if a highschool did not.

In our school system, “honors” classes don’t begin until the 9th grade because it’s illegal (by FEDERAL law) to “group” students according to ability.

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