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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn't surprising at all to me as a STEM HS teacher. We always have students who lack the prereq skills, don't do what they're supposed to do, take classes that are simply too hard for them and then make demands along the lines of "what extra credit do you offer because I need to get my grade to at least a ____". The blank is usually an A or a B, and the student is usually scoring two grades below that.

Or they'll come to you and say "I don't understand what you're teaching/you're going too fast/if you taught it differently I would understand so can you change what you're doing/no one else understands what you're teaching" because they've talked to two similarly situated friends who are failing and have no idea that the class average is a C.

On top of which, our district has open enrollment and there's always a fraction of students who were told to take a lower-level class who disregard teacher recs and select classes they can't handle, and then gripe about them.[/quote]
There was a thread on DCUM recently in the private school forum where people were saying public schools were than private better bc there was no "gatekeeping" or prerequisites for AP classes, [/quote]

Our private school requires test scores and grades to get into Honors courses first year.  After that it's teacher rec and for AP classes--a writing sample if it's English--if it's science prior teacher approval, etc.  It is a rigorous school.

My kid has received 5s on all his AP exams so far.  It keeps the class levels rigorous without being weighted down by kids that do not belong in the class (a problem we saw in public where things were 'dumbed' down).  During Covid our public would not even teach new material for fear some kids would be left behind. They sacrificed some kids for the others.

I don't think gate-keeping is a bad thing.  A C average student likely doesn't belong in the most advanced course level.[/quote]

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