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By Haley Hart
May 7, 2025AP classes. The classes that you take by choice, but still find a way to complain about every second you get the chance. AP, which stands for Advanced Placement, classes are, in short, college-level classes offered in high school. The classes include rigorous coursework throughout the year to prepare students for an exam that they take at the end of the year. The exam is scored 1-5, and students who earn a 3 or above, automatically earn college credit. These classes are rough, to say the very least, and most difficult of them all is widely believed to be AP Physics.
At MBHS, AP Physics is taught by Kennedy Crockett, who has been teaching the class for over three years. When asked about the difficulties of teaching such a heavy curriculum, Crockett said, “It is a lot when you compare it to my other class I teach, Biology. AP classes have much more planning and you have to be preparing students for an actual exam at the end of the year.”
Though Crockett can attest to the struggles of teaching AP Physics, she didn’t shy away from sharing some of her favorite aspects of the class as well, saying “I love the problem solving aspect of this class, I like that there are clear solutions, and I love teaching upperclassmen.”
Junior Maggie Appel doing a lab. (Photo credits: Beatrice Appel.)
To walk into the MBHS AP Physics classroom, is to see students hard at work, whether it be on a multi-page packet, or an interactive lab. Hunched over a table, were two students eager to share their complex thoughts on AP Physics, Aesa Viadati and Isaac Schooley. “It’s pretty difficult, but Mrs. Crockett put me on freshman year and told me this class had a lot of trigonometry and I was into trig at the time, and then like all my friends were taking it so I was like yeah, let me do it,” said Schooley.
Viadati shared, “Yeah, this class is hard, but it’s honestly not too bad. It is just like so much stuff you’ve never even heard of before, like all new concepts. Like in AP History, or English, or something, you know what you’re being taught, but AP Physics is so new.”
The pair also shared their advice to students planning to take this course, with Schooley emphasizing, “Make a group chat! It’s so important! And, take this class with friends! As long as you have people you know in this class you will be fine, but if you know no one, you’re cooked,” and Viadati saying, “If you have the mindset you are going to hate it, you will, just don’t.”
Overall, staff and students alike can agree that AP Physics is no walk in the park, but with the right combination of attitude and peer support, the class can become one that students thrive in, and even enjoy.
Junior Phaedra Fernflores doing a lab. (Photo Credits: Beatrice Appel.)
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