AP "unused exam" fee dispute with high school

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Some deranged people posting here.

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WTF is so hard about this? I’ll never understand people like you. Just pay the fees. Done.

Reminds me of people who try to dispute rental cleaning fees.

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Anonymous wrote:WTF is so hard about this? I’ll never understand people like you. Just pay the fees. Done.

Reminds me of people who try to dispute rental cleaning fees.

WTF is so hard about the fact that OP doesn’t owe the school money, they owe her money. And if you read OP’s update, you’d know they have acknowledged that fact. Do you just pay any bill someone sends you? If so, please post your address.

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Anonymous wrote:The college board is such a racket

Yep. Had this happen to my kid in FCPS, ie school he decided to go to wouldn't give credit for any score on the exams but didn't know this until after he'd accepted which was after the AP exam sign up. I was so pissed. To make matters worse the school was requiring him to take the exams ie he couldn't just no show for the exams. He wasn't about to study for them and didn't want a "bad" score out there. I just called him in sick that day. So OP no solution, just know I feel ya'.

You made a parenting mistake. Those exams are worthwhile as preparation for college exams. Teach your child to follow through and complete their classes to the best of their ability. If your child would have received a "bad" score on an exam that he prepared for all year, then all the more reason to have him exert extra effort to learn the content (which is the whole point of the class.)

Not PP you replied to, but get back to us when you have a burnt-out senior on the verge of a breakdown who has already taken 12 AP courses and who knows that any extra exams he takes won't make any sort of difference, since the college does not give extra credit for those scores.

As a parent, you have to recognize what the best decision is here, and it's not "following through". No. These kids have worked like crazy for 4 years of high school to get where they are. They have already followed through. They have already demonstrated work ethic.

Shame on you for thinking they're flakes. They're probably harder working than you ever were.

Hmmm... mom of four who each went to school with more than a year's worth of AP credit. I've also been an AP teacher for 13 years. If your child gets to the end of the year and needs to do a lot of study to avoid a poor score on an AP exam, no, they haven't demonstrated work ethic during the year, and they definitely haven't "worked like crazy." But if that thought makes you feel better, knock yourself out.

Shame on you if you're really a teacher. You should know that anxiety is at an all-time high among teenagers. If you think burn-out isn't real, then you really shouldn't be teaching adolescents. If you carry over this attitude in the classroom, and believe that any student should be able to easily achieve in multiple AP courses and if they don't, it means they haven't worked hard, then you're WRONG. Simply and factually wrong. And you are despicable for having those opinions. I really hope you're a liar and just want to rile up people.

Wow, Mom... Sorry, I am not a liar, and I don't think you have a clue what goes on in an AP classroom. I stand by my work ethic comments (or you pushed your child well beyond their academic capacity and they did not belong in those classrooms to begin with.)

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Anonymous wrote:WTF is so hard about this? I’ll never understand people like you. Just pay the fees. Done.

Reminds me of people who try to dispute rental cleaning fees.

I don’t understand people like you. I guess it takes all sorts to make the world go round. I can’t imagine not questioning anything and blindly paying a company when they are in the wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:The college board is such a racket

Yep take an exam for $100 that could potentially save you thousands in college tuition...what a scam. Follow directions and these issues don't happen.

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Anonymous wrote:The college board is such a racket

Yep take an exam for $100 that could potentially save you thousands in college tuition...what a scam. Follow directions and these issues don't happen.

It is a scam. By now seniors already know where they are going to college and whether or not the AP exams will be counted at all. It's a huge waste of time and money for students to take exams that are worthless. That's why MCPS teachers will bribe the kids with perks to entice them to sit for the AP exams to up the teachers number of tests given. At this point it is meaningless to the students but benefits the teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:The college board is such a racket

Yep take an exam for $100 that could potentially save you thousands in college tuition...what a scam. Follow directions and these issues don't happen.

It is a scam. By now seniors already know where they are going to college and whether or not the AP exams will be counted at all. It's a huge waste of time and money for students to take exams that are worthless. That's why MCPS teachers will bribe the kids with perks to entice them to sit for the AP exams to up the teachers number of tests given. At this point it is meaningless to the students but benefits the teachers.

How? Teachers get paid the same whether or not students sit the exam.

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Anonymous wrote:If your school is anything like our school, you received many warnings about this in the months leading up to exams. It shouldn't have come as any surprise.

OP here. I did not receive any information, and I pointed this out to them in no uncertain terms. If they want to charge fees, they need to spell that out before their made-up deadline to cancel exams, and before they ask for the money.

I don't know what happened this year at this school, but multiple parents I know have reported problems with AP class registration, AP exam registration and all sorts of problems with information not being relayed to the right person at the right time. Some kids nearly missed taking exams they had prepared for all year, because at the last minute the school realized they had forgotten to order an exam for those kids, ***when their parents had paid on time*** (and they had the receipts to prove it).

Just because a parent paid for an exam, that doesn’t mean the student registered for the exam on College Board. Those parents you are referring to didn’t have the correct “receipts.”

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OP here again with a real update!


I just received an email stating I would be credited with the partial refund I had requested.

So glad I did not just stupidly pay their extra $40 per exam they were insisting I owed, and that some posters on here thought I should pay.

I strongly suspect they pull this on every unsuspecting parent to fund their end-of-year party. They sent out a separate email this morning requesting donations for it! Nope, not after this...

Full disclosure: this is the lovely and competent administration at Walter Johnson high school. Maybe they think parents are so rich they can just pay $40 extra per exam to make the problem go away.


HA!!!

WJ parent here. Shame on you for spreading so much misinformation. I have an idea… If you really think they are scamming families I dare you to email administration and tell them yourself. Of course you won’t though. You’ll just post your BS anonymously. HA!!

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Anonymous wrote:The college board is such a racket

Yep take an exam for $100 that could potentially save you thousands in college tuition...what a scam. Follow directions and these issues don't happen.

It is a scam. By now seniors already know where they are going to college and whether or not the AP exams will be counted at all. It's a huge waste of time and money for students to take exams that are worthless. That's why MCPS teachers will bribe the kids with perks to entice them to sit for the AP exams to up the teachers number of tests given. At this point it is meaningless to the students but benefits the teachers.

How does it actually benefit the teachers?