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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How could 25% of students at SWW fail to pass even one AP exam with a 3 or higher? [/quote]

For example, AP Eng Lang is a required course and test for all 11th graders at SWW. AP World and AP US History courses are also required at SWW. Perhaps a quarter of those kids are not a good fit for those courses?[/quote]

Then shouldn’t they fail the class too? [/quote]

No there are just some kids who bomb tests for various reasons.[/quote]

And what are those reasons? I went to an application high school abroad. Nobody bomb a test, ever. You had no business being in that school if you bombed a test. 25% couldn't  even get a 3?!
Few kids dropped out but because of discipline problems or problems with a certain teacher. Nobody dropped out because of they didn't do well on tests.
DC can't get enough kids together for it's best high school who would get at least 3? How? Is the school not good anymore? To be fair, I only know one person who graduated from SWW and he is a doctor now. He is very proud of the school. 
This 25% failure rate makes me think that my own kid can get into the school unless the spots were made available to kids who wouldn't even get a 3.[/quote]

It is not hard to get into SWW. Also, it is widely believed that SWW has quotas by Ward so you’re not necessarily getting the brightest students. [/quote]

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