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Board approves course‑book updates; AP Chemistry to run every other year amid enrollment concerns
Summary
After public comment from a GHS physics teacher opposing the change, the board approved updates to high‑school course materials that include moving AP Chemistry to an every‑other‑year offering due to enrollment and staffing constraints and noting options such as overload sections.
The Ball‑Chatham CUSD 5 Board approved updates to the GHS course handbook that include scheduling AP Chemistry on an every‑other‑year rotation, citing enrollment trends and staffing constraints.
Grant Godard, a physics teacher at the high school, used the public‑comment period to urge the board to retain an annual AP Chemistry offering. Godard said he was “very disappointed to see the AP chemistry course move to an every other year offering,” arguing the change would force students to make course decisions as early as eighth grade and could limit…
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