Some kids took honors math and science. Some took honors English and social studies. Some took all of them.
yes, some of us did. we didn’t have honors anything in my day, but there were different academic tracks. For the college bound there was academic/scientific and there was academic/cultural. i completed the requirements for both tracks. i had advanced chem and physics senior year as well as taking Spanish 4 and German 2. i probably could have made it through engineering school at Pitt, but i was never interested in that. once i figured out after freshman year that i wasn’t likely to get into med school i wanted out of the math/sci altogether. my niece is graduating HS this year and is going to engineering school at the U of Akron. she is interested in dental school, but there is no official pre-dent program, so she will do engineering and have that as an option after 4 years. if she doesn’t like it and is not put off by more school, she can apply to dental school. i thought that was a pretty good plan.
My Catholic school didn’t offer honors anything. You were either college prep in the A, B, or C classes or you co-oped in business. The public schools didn’t have honors classes back then either. It would’ve been nice and much more economical to get college credit back in HS, but that was not an option.