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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an infrequent poster because I find these forums so toxic but I want to follow up on an earlier poster...for those who seem convinced (without evidence from what I can tell) that this is going to destroy the education of your "advanced" children, what is the solution?  Status quo? If so, do you recognize the damage of a two-track system where kids are essentially segregated by race?  If you do realize that the status quo is problematic, what is the solution?  And if your solution is "fixing the elementary schools"...are you willing to sacrifice several cohorts of BIPOC children until whatever elementary school "fixes" work through the system? If you have a different solution, what is it?  Because I don't know what the solution is but I'm willing to see how this plays out (I'm the parent of an "advanced" child) in the hopes that we can start to chip away the systemic racism built over generations.[/quote]

I don't see a problem [i]at all[/i] with allowing anyone who wants to take an AP class to take an AP class. That's how it was at my school and it worked well. The kids that wanted to be there or at least wanted to try were willing to put in the work. If it didn't work out, no problem, they'd drop down to honors or standard for the next course in the sequence. What I do have a problem with is eliminating the standard and honors courses and putting them all in one class. I'm sure a ton of kids don't feel they are ready for AP and that is totally fine. It seems completely counterintuitive. [/quote]

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