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[quote=Anonymous]It'll probably never happen, so you can smile at your friend and ignore her.

Top colleges are looking for kids who take the most challenging classes available to them. Colleges are also well aware, as a PP noted, that AP/IB are the new "Honors," and Honors are the new "on-level." So if school districts eliminate AP/IB, they would have to revamp their entire curricula to introduce a whole new, challenging path of study for kids who want/need more challenge. I'm not necessarily opposed to this, depending on the implementation ... but it's not gonna happen. I also have some sympathy for the Race to Nowhere arguments about how we're burning our kids out. But frankly, if you revamp the curriculum and call it something else, you will still have the same competition among the high-achieving kids, just with a different name. I say this as the parent of two high-achieving kids, the oldest of whom is now at an ivy.

As long as the College Board offers AP tests (and it's a huge money maker as another PP pointed out), kids will feel they have to take AP tests to impress colleges, whether their HS offers AP or not. You see some of this at DC area private high schools which don't offer AP (Maret) or offer fewer AP classes, but most of the kids take the AP tests in April anyway. Heck, at RM's IB program lots of kids take the science and math APs.

So the parents of high-achieving kids would fight OP's whiny friend tooth and nail. It's like saying, you high-flying kids should agree to be mediocre so my child has an equal chance if getting into the school of her choice. [/quote]

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