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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AP Physics 1 is one of the more difficult AP courses. It's not about the math level - it has a lot of deep conceptual reasoning that is challenging for younger teen brains. College Board adjusted it to remove a couple of units that were sort of disconnected, so there should be less time pressure next year. It's not a course I would recommend for 9th grade, but Blair does its own thing.

-AP Physics 1 teacher[/quote]

I asked a Blair counselor about this and they said don't worry about it, the kids they place do well. Do you think this is true for the most part? Any idea why Blair does this?[/quote]

Because the demographics in Blair (the usual suspects) will take a lot of sh1t from Blair administration and teachers (since they want the LOR for college), and the parents will make up for all the knowledge gaps by teaching everything themselves to their students or by getting them tutoring.

Let me be more clear - the problem with having Asian American students in any classroom is that they will not complain even if the quality of education is craaap. They will quietly take on the burden themselves and sacrifice time, resources, peace of mind, money - to educate their child themselves.  The school does not care because on paper their stats look AMAZING and makes them look good.  MCPS loves to have Asian American students because they require no effort in teaching. However, they also hate them because they don't want to give them any resources.

When AA or HI or poorer WH kids come to Blair, believing that there is something magical in the air, they are left underperforming because they don't realize that there is zero help from the teachers, and Asian Americans are only doing well  because they are killing themselves and their mental health doing the entire hard work at home.  [/quote]

Not at Blair, and don’t agree with the racialized analysis in the PP post, but I do agree that in MCPS high schools there are a plethora of harder classes where the MCPS curriculum and teaching is pretty crappy and middle and upper income parents don’t say anything and just hire a tutor.  Classes where this frequently happens are math from Algebra I up, sciences like chem, physics and any harder AP science, and AP Lang and LIt plus some AP history classes. [/quote]

I thought the AP curriculum was standardized--is that not true? If if it standardized, what is the issue regarding teaching? Well, I guess I will preemptively hire a tutor late this summer. Not sure what else UMC parents can do.[/quote]

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