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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What schools eliminated APs?[/quote]Sidwell, GDS, Potomac, Holton, and Landon. Also a bunch of boarding schools in New England.[/quote]

13 pages about 5 DMV schools that dropped APs and the 8 colleges that don’t give credit for them. Got it.[/quote]

No these are just examples, it is much more widespread.[/quote]

It’s not…[b]and it’s odd why people are so invested that it is.[/b]

Again, 90% of all private schools (it’s probably more) still offer AP classes and AP tests (including schools like Andover and other boarding schools in certain subjects).  99% offer AP tests even if they don’t technically have AP classes.[/quote]

Because these people have no idea about AP classes one way or the other but they’ve fully bought their school’s line about why the school got rid of them.[/quote]

We are intimately familiar with the AP program and are glad to have better options.  It is pretty much the lowest level curriculum you can find.[/quote]

So…you think a school like Harvard Westlake or Andover or STA or NCS are offering “lowest level” curriculum?

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Andover does not offer AP courses.  You appear to have no idea what you are talking about.  Yes, AP courses are the lowest level curriculum which is why it is available at every public school including below average and low achieving ones.[/quote]

One minute APs are the lowest of the low, the next minute APs ask too much and the teachers need the freedom to slow down and skip topics. But it’s definitely not a marketing move to extract money from foolish, snobby parents who are willing to pay for the opportunity to sniff at public school students. Definitely not. [/quote]

The APs in the Humanities do NOT ask TOO MUCH. They ask for the WRONG kind of learning and require teachers to cover an absurdly long list of terms instead of spending time having students explore and understand material.

I know that you will never, ever, ever grasp that distinction, but I'll make it again for the benefit of other readers.

Put it this way - good grades at a private's humanities courses pretty much assure passing an AP exam.  AP students, however, will not learn the actual college-level skills that good teachers can impart in that same classroom time allotment.

A large proportion of people will never grasp that memorization and learning are often not the same thing, often drastically not.[/quote]

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