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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can be snotty in the land of good schools, where every kid has access to a full compliment of APs and decent enough teachers so that they can pass all their APs.

Then their is my high school in the rural South.  It offers two APs— to seniors only.  AB Calc and English Lit.  I was the only one to pass either my senior year— with a DMV sneering 3 on the AB Calc that was the first pass in my HS in 5 years.

For kids with crappy teachers in crappy public schools with only a few APs— which is most public high schools, passing an AP means something.  Passing 3 or more is rare and an actual accomplishment.  No reason to snark on places that don’t prepare kids for TJ and Blair and MIT and Harvard.  Put your kids certificate aside and move on. [/quote]

+1 from someone whose high school was two roads over from the dirt roads that still crisscrossed my town and offered no APs.  This area has trained parents to think that its accomplished student population is merely mediocre and its teachers are worthy of contempt half the time.  What I wouldn’t have given to have gone to the public high school my kids go to now.  [/quote]

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