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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The AP pass rates vary by school.  One would think the top kids are raking the AP math and science classes....and yet, some schools have a 25%  passrate and others have an 85% passrate on the same test.  No way the "just trying AP"  kids are taking AP calculus.  Is it the teaching?  Lack of drive of the kids? Lack of challenge leading up to it? A who cares about the test philosophy?  I don't know.

Op, your question assumes a child will stand out.  Surely it is easier to be noticed in a crowd of just-getting-by.  Do you already know your kid is going to stand out?  Most kids don't...there is something to be said for harnessing the positive value if peer pressure in a school where most kids are trying to study, do well, (take and pass APs) and get into college.

In some schools, the athletics and basic behavioral compliance  take more attention than the studying and achieving.  [/quote]

Please. Areas like Springfield are hardly Compton. This sort of thinking is about parents, not children. It’s about fear. It’s about racism. It’s about classism. [/quote]

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