On Monday, Bullitt East will be hosting an AP parent night to provide information to parents about AP classes for the next school year.

In past years, AP parent night has been dismissed, but this year East is bringing the meeting back with hopes to showcase the importance of enrolling a student in an AP, or Advanced Placement, course. The meeting will be hosted by the counselors, in which they are going to provide the benefits of the courses and any information that parents would like to know. Counselor Dana Steinmetz said, ¨We’re hoping that parents come in and ask questions in case they aren’t sure if their child can handle it [AP classes] and they are going to try to weigh out the pros and cons.”

Previously, parents and students have been misinformed about all of the pros and cons with taking AP classes simply because they have not been discussed much. As many people know, these classes provide a way for students to earn college credit for future courses by taking and passing an AP test for the class, but there are many more positives than just having the possibility to earn credits. Every time a student passes an AP test, it will give students the weighted grade which inevitably increases  GPA, thus providing the student with more KEES money. In order to pass the exam, a student must receive a score of three or higher, on a scale of one to five.

Some of the AP classes provided for students are AP government, AP chemistry, AP psychology, AP English, AP U.S history, AP human geography, AP biology, and AP environmental science. These courses will be discussed at the parent night where parents are open to ask any questions that they may have.
Not only will AP parent night discuss the positive impacts that AP courses can have on a student’s education, but the difficulties and seriousness of taking the classes will be highlighted as well. “We want to inform parents that many students believe that AP classes are just like Honors Classes, but they are a little faster pace and they don’t know what they’re getting into, and then drop the course,” said Steinmetz.