Low income kid scores perfect on AP Calc test-great story of the day

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Anonymous wrote:Great story! It seems the math instructor is a real gem as well.

~All 21 of Yom’s AP Calculus students who took the exam last year passed; 17 got the highest score of 5. It was the third year in a row that all of Yom’s kids passed the test.

And this from a GS rated 6 school. GS shows the school has 73% Hispanic; 25% Asian. No black or white kids. Whopping 85% FARMS rate. ELL 20%.

Goes to show, ratings don't show the whole picture. As long as the teachers are great, and you want to learn, you can have a great education.

Well, yes. But what if they aren't? What if they're just regular human beings? An education policy for poor kids that relies on teachers being great and putting in tons of extra hours is an education policy that will fail.

Yes, it's great his teacher was willing to do this, but it is completely unrealistic to expect teachers Other teachers to do this. How mny people want to stick around their office and do unpaid work at the end of the day?

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6:16 I agree. I'm wondering why no one is focusing on the amount of time it took this teacher to teach his students compared to the actual time in the classroom during the school day. There is no way these kids would have done so well with this teacher if he did not have extra classes with them all through the year.