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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Academies have become popular as a way to create smaller learning communities within a larger school. They also are supposed to help kids connect the dots between school and actual careers. They have had mixed success in DCPS. [/quote] Academies are pseudo vocational tracks. That is why they are rigid and there are no AP courses in many. The focus at JR is shifting from a school to prepare kids for college to a school to help lower achieving kids to find careers, many of which do not need college.[/quote] AP courses are set by the College Board. It is not as though a school can just offer AP Engineering or AP Biomedicine. JR offers every math and science AP that college board offers. Are you saying that they should require kids to take AP Physics or AP Chem in order to graduate from the Scimatech academy? No surprise, that most do so on their own.[/quote]
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