Universal AP English & History at Wilson next year for 11th grade
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Anonymous
Will the index be changed to reflect, or actually deflect, that schools are cheating by pushing all students into APs? |
Anonymous
It hasn’t been changed thus far so why would he change it now? Although I think (or at least I hope) most people who know the criteria for this ranking realize it’s total nonsense. |
Anonymous
humm, no. students who are behind, are not good readers or writers will be pushed to AP classes requiring extensive reading and writing, even more pronounced in fast paced 4X4 schedule. they will struggle and fail. if a student is below grade in English the solution is not putting the student in an AP class. the decision was centered on the school, not on the kids. they are dismantling this racist and patriarchal society, everybody is now an AP student at Wilson, best school in the area. who cares about the kids |
Anonymous
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I must be missing something, but why is AP the end all be all? Many people might not want to take a class so focused on a single text and a curriculum that teaches to the test. It sounds awful not to have other choices.
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Anonymous
| Pushing AP in a 4x4 schedule does seem like a lot. |
Anonymous
Because DCPS has useless and boring curriculums for regular and honors classes |
Anonymous
I think this is the best argument. That to graduate a student must have taken 2 AP classes. The argument that any student can sign up for AP classes without permission is weak. How many kids are playing small? This encourages them to push higher. Also, to the PP who posted white demographics and proficiency. I know many white kids, mainly boys because that's who I know, who are struggling there. White ≠ proficient. |
Anonymous
First, the Wilson Boundary is huge, and, in addition, 32% of the students live outside of its boundary, so your guess about who goes there, while irrelevant, is also wrong. Second, those numbers do not capture all students. In addition to the PARCC boycott PP noted, the most advanced math kids don't take the math PARCC in HS (only Alg. I, Alg. II and Geometry, so if taken in MS, no test in HS); there was some confusion and a lot of mess ups in who and whether math PARCC would be taken so essentially you can't read anything into the PARCC math from those years. Many kids took no test, some kids unexpectedly sat for a test for a class they had taken years earlier, with no time to review and prep, and so on. I recall that it was a big mess, which is another reason why some kids just skipped it (plus the AP tests were at the same time so taking the PARCC meant missing critical AP review). |
Anonymous
As several PP teachers noted in this thread, there are many ways to teach an AP class (same with IB, in fact). Ask anyone who tutors students from more than one school in the same AP classes: they are not using identical course descriptions or teaching methods. Some schools may "teach to the test" and you might as well just buy the Princeton Review, but that is a pretty rare (and lazy) approach. |
Anonymous
Thank you, that all explains the low number. |
Anonymous
| Why is "AP for all" mandated only at Wilson? If it's good policy, then shouldn't ALL students across DCPS be placed in AP classes as the mainstream courses of study? If not, what's so special about Wilson that it is being singled out? |
Anonymous
| Why not require at least a B in the prior year's class in order to get into AP? Want to take AP English? Then you need a B in the prior year's English class. Same with math, sciences, etc. This is not unreasonable. |
Anonymous
Isn't everyone getting a B this year? DCPS isn't giving any grades lower than a B. |
Anonymous
Yeah, but that's not what they are doing. Just shoehorn that 6th-grade-reading-level kid into a college level AP class, and see how it goes. |
Anonymous
| Is this the final decision? |