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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We should stop harping on the AP thing - it is not the crux of the issue. It was just given as ONE example.[/quote]

one more harp -- note that when Cahall listed all the many things he'd accomplished at Wilson, he did not mention that AP scores went up - he just left out that metric (a common trick to divert attention from bad news).  I suspect that if someone looked at the actual number, we'd see that scores went down.

School-wide AP scores are hard, but not impossible, to obtain.  The principal has them, but has no obligation to publicize them (it works this way at private schools too).

Why do I think the scores went down?  For the simple reason that more kids were taking the test -- likely some of them pushed by the principal so he could boost  the numbers and then proudly report on the increased number of AP students since he took the helm.

Let's say some of these kids weren't prepared, were not eager to take AP and subsequently did not do well.[/quote]

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