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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AP is not necessarily rigorous.  It used to be you had to be approved for AP classes. Now anyone can sign up.  Sure it’s better than Gen Ed but there is a reason schools are going back to requiring standardized test scores.  The consensus of college professors are that many kids with loads of AP/IB/DE are unprepared. I think the whole AP vs IB debate is kind of laughable. All it tells you is that insecure parents feel the need to make themselves feel better by dissing the “other.”  Again-go outside of DCUM to get unbiased feedback.[/quote]

Amazing that you surveyed the college professors to know what their consensus is! The AP exam certifies how well the material is mastered, I don’t thing the rigor of the evaluation went down.

The debate here is about having your kid shoved in the crappy IB program because the central office arbitrarily decided that’s what they’ll teach at your high school. [/quote]
Jesus lady who pee peed in your Cheerios? And no I  didn’t conduct formal research. But go look online in different forums. There have been articles written about it by professors saying many kids are not well prepared. [/quote]

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