Are They Pushing Too Hard?

Jane is a senior. She has never really excelled, per se, in her academics. She does her work, and gets by. As she gets into the mindset to graduate, her guidance counselors decide she has the potential for AP, or Advanced Placement (College Level) classes.

Jane doesn't really care. She'll do what her guidance counselor says, because that's what she will end up doing anyway. On the first day of school Jane walks in and realizes that this classroom, this world she had entered, was completely different. It had completely different people in the class, unlike the same 30-50 people Jane was used to having classes with since freshman year. Jane starts to get nervous.

Jane has to care for her baby brother and baby sister at home, because mom is too busy working the evening shifts to care for the kids herelf. Jane doesn't have time for AP reading. So, she puts it off. "I'll do it later" she says. Of course, later never comes around.

Before Jane knows it, she is behind in her AP class. She can't catch up. She goes back to her guidance counsler, the same one that had the idea to put her in that class.

The guidance counselor refuses to allow her to drop the class. He tells her that she needs direct approval from the principal to drop an AP class, and that the principal rarely gives it to students.

Jane is frustrated. Jane is stuck. 

*Jane is a fictional character created to deliver a point to the readers of this post