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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember like 5 years ago all the top privates said they were getting rid of APs.  Is GDS the only one that followed through?  Seems like STA and NCS completely backtracked.

Did Covid somehow break the solidarity?[/quote]

STA and NCS kept math, science and foreign language AP classes.  (they each kept AP calc AP, Calc BC, AP physics and AP physics C, AP chem, AP biology, AP comp sci, AP foreign language (in each foreign lang) and AP foreign language literature (in each foreign lang)
They dropped history and English AP classes. [/quote]

Parents complain about this because they argue that kids who stronger in English/History will have weaker transcripts than the STEM kids who can load up on AP's.[/quote]

In public you can do English and history AP's.  You can do your history AP starting freshman year.[/quote]

Taking AP history in 9th grade is why the AP is devalued. [/quote]

Why is it devalued?  Are you just trying to justify why your child isn't doing it?  Lots of smart kids handle it just fine.  Mine's also in pre-calculus in 9th.  Some privates are "advanced" by reputation only.[/quote]

Actually they’re “advanced” by the Intl families supplementing math and science at home from an early age onward.
Nothing to do with the k-6 private school math teachers or curricula. And once you see the materials that’s crystal clear.[/quote]

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