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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]sorry to be dense but can someone remind me why they decided to do this in the first place?  Wasn't it somewhat controversial?  [/quote]

The claims were : students may pass up other courses to get the college credits from AP courses, and that moving away from the courses would allow them to offer a wider variety of courses that were equally rigorous and enriching.

However, I’ve yet to hear what rigorous courses are replacing the APs at all these schools.  More I suspect that said course will offer depth in a teachers personal area of curiosity and expertise and less the students interest.  Especially when you consider these are small schools so it’s not like the teachers are about to create a huge variety of new classes from scratch and then be the only ones that can teach them every year.[/quote]

Most schools post their catalogs online. Gds designates their new AP replacements with "UL" and you can see them in every department. But of course they reflect what teachers want to teach/school priorities rather than student interests. As a group, students have a variety of interests and change every year. No school builds its curriculum that way.[/quote]

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