Local HS Adjusting Science Curriculum

[ProfessorGAC]

3. They Didn't Really Listen To Me

They just coincidentally changed what I expressed was an issue, 5 years after I brought it up.
My PhD is in physical organic chemistry so I kind of know the thought processes & the learning sequence that makes sense.
As another reply stated from experience, and from my HS days, chem should be a junior level course.
At least sophomore year is better than the first year.
Biology is likely better, because it helps kids organize concepts & learn the "what" before they take disciplines involving abstraction and "how" things work.
At a few other HS, freshman take Earth Science, which is kind of general science with a little more depth than what they had in junior high. Then, bio, chem & physics in that order.
That makes more sense to me. I might even put physics ahead of chem.