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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DS has done 7 AP classes, including 4 now during his senior year. We're not big fans of the classes. The teaching is geared entirely to helping the kids do well on the AP test itself, which are multiple choice and short answer essays. It blows my mind that my kid will graduate HS without ever having written a real research paper despite taking multiple AP history and government classes, that he read only one book in AP Lang, that AP Stats tests are all multiple choice (so no partial credit for work.)

We have a younger kid and may send him to private - since most of the higher tier DC privates don't do AP tests because of the test-focused curriculum. Or we'll have him do the IB curriculum at his public HS.[/quote]

I think it might be your school, PP.  DC has taken an AP history class every year since freshman year and has always had to write an in-depth term paper every semester.  The two AP English had summer reading as well as several books read as part of the classes.

I don’t know about stats.

But I agree that AP’s are getting crazy.  There are just too many!  And schools have different rules regarding who can take the AP class.  [/quote]

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