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[quote=Anonymous]Granted  I took the classes 30 years ago so things may have changed but it was very much geared towards passing the test when I was in HS - obviously to get the college credits but also so the school could take credit for the percentage of kids who passed.

But college courses were much more writing dependent (and lab dependent) than the way it was taught at my public HS though the AP  classes were all equivalent to intro level college classes which tended to be big and taught by grad students anyhow so maybe I didn't miss much but in my case it really does seem like the smaller sized HS class could have served a lot more of a purpose if it wasn't so oriented towards passing the test.

Having said that at my high school the AP classes were the  advanced classes for juniors and seniors and virtually everyone college bound would have been poorly served by not being in the classes and maybe under prepared but the same dynamic may not exist today or perhaps not at private schools.

Personally I think HS kids should be doing lots of reading and the writing they do should be to cultivate their vocabularies and critical thinking skills and ability to express themselves and HS should be more about cultivating kids than purely measuring them with grades which was not at all my HS experience which was dominated by busy work and memorization so if you could teach AP classes but not orient it to the test and not worry about the results that would be a big improvement over my own experience.[/quote]

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