People treating the news that schools are cancelling AP classes as if it’s completely normal
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Anonymous
| Am I taking crazy pills or does anyone else think it’s a bad idea? How is canceling AP classes in DC and Virginia advancing the cause of eradicating racism and promoting racial equity? You are holding student back to raise others, but it’s more like crabs in a bucket. |
Anonymous
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wait what? I havent seen anything about canceling AP?
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Anonymous
| Yet another thread for folks to freak out on. 🙄 Including all students in AP classes is not cancelling AP classes. |
Anonymous
“Including all students in AP classes is not cancelling AP classes”. Brilliant analysis. Brilliant. |
Anonymous
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Link to canceling AP classes in DC?
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Anonymous
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I found the reasoning in this article illuminating: https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/formal-recommendations-for-equity-in-virginia-public-schools-will-destroy-them/
I skew liberal, but am becoming concerned by well-intentioned, but poorly developed educational policy proposals of late. |
Anonymous
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Nobody is canceling AP classes in DC. Wilson is requiring all kids in 11th grade take AP English and AP US History and people are freaking out about it because they assume (without evidence) that this means it won't be a "real" AP class. Of course, it will, because the College Board has to approve the curriculum/syllabus in order for it to be an AP class.
It's an effort to deal with a substantial segregation issue at Wilson with regard to which kids take AP classes and which don't. If it is to be successful, Wilson will have to devote a lot of resources to supporting some of these kids and it's not clear that they have a plan for doing so but time will tell. But MANY people are assuming it will be a disaster without giving it a chance. |
Anonymous
Hi, look it up yourself, thanks. |
Anonymous
They probably did this because they have more demand for AP than available slots. I’m sure there are kids who are motivated to take AP classes but do not care to put in any effort into PARC tests. Also AP classes are easy and everyone should try them. |
Anonymous
PP just wants someone else to do her homework. |
Anonymous
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The ultimate in equity is teaching ALL students to read at or above grade level. Too many schools are not following the science of reading and are not teaching kids, especially low income kids to read. If districts spent all this money that they are spending on equity training on early intensive academics and programs , kids would be able to read on grade level. There needs to be a system where kids are continually assessed and given intensive intervention. It is so much cheaper to remediate k-2 then have a kid go through years of academic failure. Any student entering first grade behind should be placed in a small group reading and writing intervention for as many hours a day as it takes to learn how to read. It might take 2 or 3 years but then they would be on grade level by 3rd or 4th.
Instead of helping low income/low performing students schools will abolish advanced classes to slow down others. |
Anonymous
Oh, so they’re not canceling the ap classes? They’re just open to anyone, even students who are not prepared for advanced placement classes. So essentially they’re keeping the name, so you’re right, technically. Normally when I see a duck, and it walks and quacks like a duck, I assume it’s a duck. Now I’ve learned that’s a racist interpretation and that in fact a chicken can be a duck. Anyway, more on potential outcomes: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/magazine/who-benefits-from-the-expansion-of-ap-classes.html |
Anonymous
Oooo. So Orwellian. |
Anonymous
Eek. I don’t think you understand what “Orwellian” means. |
Anonymous
Not you with the term “irony”. |