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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]

Do you really think that kids just randomly decide to take Physics C or Calc BC? [/quote]

You are correct, the kids that shouldn't be in AP rarely want to sign up, but plenty of them have pushy parents that convince or force them to sign up anyway.

Actually the issue of unprepared kids presents itself at both low and high-SES schools. At low-SES schools educators encourage URM kids to try AP out as a learning experience. At high-SES schools parents push their low-achieving kids into AP because parents refuse to accept their kids aren't as high-achieving as they themselves were. PP is correct that AP/IB is no longer the line of separation it once was.[/quote]

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