As a senior who has spent four years piling AP classes into my schedule, I have experienced both the benefits and the burnout. While AP classes have established a sense of “academic rigor” in my schedule,...
Student performance can be affected by many factors; more specifically, teachers have a major impact on how their students perform. Ideally, students should feel helped and supported by all of their teachers....
The start of the new semester brings course selection to Chamblee High School’s students. There are countless options on what classes to take, especially when it comes to AP classes. AP, or Advanced...
Despite the ongoing belief that students prefer ease over challenge in the classroom, a handful of students are determined and willing to challenge themselves past the level they are automatically placed...
It is Chamblee students’ favorite time of the year once again— course advisement to determine their class schedules for next year. Many at Chamblee find that it is difficult to keep their schedules...
Choosing which classes you want to take and building your schedule can be a stressful task. With such an extensive list of classes to choose from and the many different teaching approaches each one entails,...
Students at Chamblee have been stressed by recent developments relating to AP exams and scores. Students expect their scores at some point in June, but as of now, the College Board has failed to return...
Starting in their sophomore or junior years of high school, Chamblee students are given the opportunity to take a two-year diploma program called AP Capstone. According to College Board’s official website,...
It’s no doubt that COVID-19 has burned a warpath through the US educational system, bringing down everything in its trajectory—from prom to senior events to now IB exams, as decreed by the International...
The following story is part of a series of articles about the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. Other articles in the series can be found here.
As the coronavirus pandemic escalates, schooling around the...
Benjamin Franklin once said, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” Well, you can add one more thing to that list: AP exam dues.
College Board’s recent decision...
Advanced Placement (AP) courses—they are a way to earn college credit while still in high school and also offer a slight boost to one’s weighted GPA. Every year, students are given the option to either...
