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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone unpack this objectively? Surprised by the negativity, particularly want to check the following:

1. The new offerings lower academic rigor by replacing TJ-specific courses with APs?  --True or false?
2. If so, and if causes grade inflation, would that paradoxically put TJ students on more equal footing with base-school students where GPAs are already inflated?  --True or false?
3. The new courses reduce or eliminate interdisciplinary, collaborative teaching at TJ.  --True or false?
4. The principal is pursuing an agenda to make TJ less rigorous and more "consistent with" other FCPS schools? --True or false?

Please no bias no spin, if you can.

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1. This probably varies, but as someone who has taught several different AP courses, the college board curriculum is very watered-down. AP does not necessarily mean more rigor. 
2. Maybe true on paper, but this also means that TJ students cannot distinguish themselves as much as non-TJ students. 
3. True. This has already happened, especially in Humanities. It would not surprise me at all if IBET eventually goes away. 
4. Mukai doesn't care about rigor either way. He is simply a numbers person and just wants to boost AP numbers as much as possible. [/quote]

But if #2 above is true, would it not be the case that TJ house brands feed more to his ego than APs - not endorsing that characterization of his traits, just to follow the logic and understand [/quote]

Not really. AP course enrollment is an easy and commonly used metric to rank schools. [/quote]

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