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[quote=Anonymous]My DC is at Wilson.  DC might/might not have qualified for AP History and/or English under the old system.  DC had a wonderful ELA teacher at Deal, who worked with her, and eventually DC scored a 5 on ELA PARCC.  However, a teacher at another school helpfully told DC “You should really have someone proofread your work, because your spelling mistakes are going to mean that people won’t take you seriously”.

So maybe DC would have been chosen for AP ELA or AP History.  Maybe not.

But I am telling you that DC is a very strong participant class discussions in ELA and history.  Always has been.  I mention that only to reassure you guys that the presence of my DC in your child’s AP class is not going to detract from anyone’s academic experience, despite my DC’s erratic ANET scores.

Something else:  recently, I overheard a discussion in one of DC’s classes.  During the discussion, the killer point — I mean the 100-percent-on-target-point that synthesized social, political, and economic factors — was made by a student who had to be encouraged to participate.  Whose language was halting.  Who, I suspect, might not otherwise have been on the AP path at all.

If that student had not been in that honors class, the education of every child in that class would have been diminished.[/quote]

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