School forced help on a top student who didn’t need it

The Washington Post reports:

Daniel Guth, now a senior at the California Institute of Technology, wanted to take Advanced Placement biology and AP physics when he was a 12th-grader at Annapolis High School in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County. He was told he could not do that unless he agreed to take two additional seminar courses, one in biology and one in physics, designed to support students struggling in those AP subjects.

Guth was an academic star at Annapolis High. He already had passed several AP courses with high test scores. Why force him, he asked, to take courses he didn’t need? He would lose two precious class periods for which he had other plans, like orchestra. He eventually got the school to drop the seminar requirement for biology, but he had to give up on AP physics.

The slavery of government run schools.