Community Corner
Advanced Placement, Advancement Overload?
A mom at Keheley Elementary wonders whether overbooking kids--on the hunt for academic success--has too many downsides.
The College Board announced Cobb County School District is among just 388 public school systems in the nation to earn a place on the distinguished Advanced Placement (AP) Achievement List.
Cobb kids take AP calculus and AP physics; Kell High School's engineering club is headed to a robotics championship; there's a chamber orchestra; visual arts and, of course, the indefatigable sports teams.
Jammed into those multi-colored, sticky-noted and highlighted calendars might just be community service, driver's ed, part-time work and, if they're really super lucky, a few left over hours in a week to chill with their family and family dog.
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When you are the product of several national blue ribbon schools, with UGA as hopeful a higher-ed option as MIT or Harvard, when does too much become not enough?
So, Moms, when is advanced placement, advancement overload? Are parents (and kids) overbooking kids?
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When is too much not enough, and not enough too much of a detriment to college acceptances?
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