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[quote=Anonymous] a bit contrarian view here.  I get that private school teachers can go deeper, be more creative, etc. if they are not stuck with the AP curriculum.  And some teachers do that well.  But -- some really do not.   And there is no reason that kids in private AP classes have to be limited to the test.  My kids took APs at a private and they did all sorts of things not required by the AP curriculum -- in addition to covering the AP material.  The benefit of at least some APs (or IBs) is that it sets a standard for material that should be covered.  Private schools would much prefer that you "trust them" -- and parents are inclined to do so -- but APs offer an independent reality check to some extent.  Of course, there is too much emphasis on them,  but that is not a reason to abolish them. And not all APs are equally difficult.  In public schools, kids take APs now as if they were the "honors" classes of the non-AP past.  The better approach would be for college admissions offices to adopt some standard that they will not look favorably upon course loads requiring more than X hours of homework per week. Schools  -- public and private -- can then estimate the number of hours of homework on average of a given class (AP and non-AP).  That is what would start to give kids back a balanced life without sacrificing college admissions options. [/quote]

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