Scheduling

My daughter's done reasonably well in high school thus far. She's got a B average, in a school where they consider a C to be acceptable. Their mantra is 'we grade the way the colleges do', which makes no sense to me, but, whatever.

Now she's got her schedule for next year. Initially, they set her up for a first semester schedule with fourteen study halls every six day cycle. She got a class she wanted slotted into that, so now she has eight study halls every six day cycle. The courses are, for the most part, not challenging.

Then comes the second semester. Final semester in the high school.

Two math classes, both honors. Physics, another honors. AP English. Sociology. A sociology like-clone. Three study halls. All scheduled and vetted by a guidance department whose standard for 'can you handle this' is, I swear, Do you want to? Are you breathing?

She's done okay in math and science classes. Not great. Not let's take three tough ones at once great. So we're thinking We always said we wanted her to challenge herself. But in the last semester? Where she might fail a course with no chance to take it again other than extending her time there, and thus screwing up college plans?

And yet.....