FVHS to offer new science elective courses for the 2024-2025 school year
The new courses include AP Physics 2 and Forensic Science, while select freshmen Honors Biology students may take an AP Chemistry summer advancement class.
AP Classes
Baron Banner’s AP Course Guide
Are you planning to take an AP Class next year, but aren’t sure what the class is like? Check out this Course Guide for honest perspectives and specific course details!
Advanced Placement and college courses — are they truly comparable?
Piles upon piles of AP classes are not a rare sight among today’s high schoolers. However, are these courses, designed to be more advanced, truly suited for the average high school student?
Concurrent enrollment fails students in and out of the classroom
Although concurrent enrollment offers a short and easy alternative, students should consider the ways a shortened and virtual environment affects their understanding and potential future applications.
Why AP classes shouldn’t have summer homework
FVHS has assigned summer homework for most of the honors and AP classes for years. It’s time to analyze the effects it has on students and the true effectiveness of the assignment.
First period hybrid class just turned traditional
A problem involving the minimum instructional minutes required for every student has caused many issues a few weeks into school.
The purpose and effectiveness of summer homework
Students and teachers offer a variety of perspectives on the benefits of summer homework.
Summer homework: more knowledge, less vacation
Students in AP and Honors classes complete summer assignments every summer. Although summer homework has its benefits, it’s also got its fair share of downsides.
For the benefit of AP students, start the school year earlier
Pushing the school year back puts FVHS AP students on the same playing field as the rest of AP students across the country.
Is the gap between classes too big?
With students in classes of different levels, are the differences of the same subject too great?