Academics
Amherst Regional High School runs on a trimester system. Students take five courses per trimester: normally, three to four are academics, and one to two are electives. Most academic classes run for two trimesters. They run either straight through or are broken up by the winter trimester. The exception to this is some social studies and English courses that are a trimester each and some higher-level courses that run for all three trimesters. Amherst Regional High School is the only public high school in the nation to offer a course in Gay and Lesbian Literature, a program started by Sara Barber-Just.
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“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
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