STA is keeping AP classes

[Anonymous]

They are still being offered this year unlike the other schools in the consortion (NCS, Sidwell, GDS, Potomac, Maret, Landon and Holton).
A friend asked the school a few weeks ago and the school has decided to keep them.
I'm not sure how this will reflect on NCS specifically. I have (younger) kids at both schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are still being offered this year unlike the other schools in the consortion (NCS, Sidwell, GDS, Potomac, Maret, Landon and Holton).
A friend asked the school a few weeks ago and the school has decided to keep them.
I'm not sure how this will reflect on NCS specifically. I have (younger) kids at both schools.

NCS still has AP Classes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They are still being offered this year unlike the other schools in the consortion (NCS, Sidwell, GDS, Potomac, Maret, Landon and Holton).
A friend asked the school a few weeks ago and the school has decided to keep them.
I'm not sure how this will reflect on NCS specifically. I have (younger) kids at both schools.

NCS still has AP Classes

Only math and language. They dropped the humanities and I've heard are dropping the sciences and maybe math.

[Anonymous]

My GDS kid took the upper level classes and easily got 5s on the APs they sat for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are still being offered this year unlike the other schools in the consortion (NCS, Sidwell, GDS, Potomac, Maret, Landon and Holton).
A friend asked the school a few weeks ago and the school has decided to keep them.
I'm not sure how this will reflect on NCS specifically. I have (younger) kids at both schools.

The “consortium?” You mean cartel.

[Anonymous]

Of course they are. The other schools were just naive to join a pact with them.

[Anonymous]

STA caves to the parents. Can't say I am surprised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My GDS kid took the upper level classes and easily got 5s on the APs they sat for.

Relevance?

[Anonymous]

to the GDS poster . .you seem to have a complex. Perhaps your child is a great test taker and got 5s, but but many of my daughter's classmates from GDS completely bombed the AP exams and will not be taking any others.That may be part of why so many people are leaving the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:to the GDS poster . .you seem to have a complex. Perhaps your child is a great test taker and got 5s, but but many of my daughter's classmates from GDS completely bombed the AP exams and will not be taking any others.That may be part of why so many people are leaving the school.

DP, but

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:to the GDS poster . .you seem to have a complex. Perhaps your child is a great test taker and got 5s, but but many of my daughter's classmates from GDS completely bombed the AP exams and will not be taking any others.That may be part of why so many people are leaving the school.

What this mainly due to the scope of the class being so narrow they couldn’t make up the rest of the college breadth curriculum? We have the same concern.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:STA caves to the parents. Can't say I am surprised.

I am happy STA offers AP classes. I took several in highschool and it was helpful to be able to get those credits in college and lighten my course load in college a few semesters plus the classes were interesting.

[Anonymous]

STA only offers in math/science.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:to the GDS poster . .you seem to have a complex. Perhaps your child is a great test taker and got 5s, but but many of my daughter's classmates from GDS completely bombed the AP exams and will not be taking any others.That may be part of why so many people are leaving the school.

DP, but

Wow you just left me speechless. I might have a complex but then again so do you. You just exhibited it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My GDS kid took the upper level classes and easily got 5s on the APs they sat for.

Relevance?

The relevance is that the kid can report those 5s as part of college application. Another accomplishment.