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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I bet a lot of kids just won’t end up taking the AP exam. For better or worse. Their is no negative consequence for your HS transcript if you don’t take the AP exam.[/quote]

I think this is what the school is counting on. classes will be dumbed down so not too many kids will do badly, and only the kids who were going to take the AP class anyway will take the test (and supplement on their own) so there won't be a worrying number of bad AP tests. DCPS will celebrate how so any kids now are in AP classes at Wilson and the success of honors for all. I would believe in the school's good faith if there was an acknowledgment that AP classes are hard and that there are kids who are not even at grade level and have not learned how to study for a regular class, let alone an advanced class, and offer some strategy to show how these kids will be able to go from under grade level in English to AP English. instead, there is nothing, just we want to take down racism and the patriarchal society. at least with honors for all. there was the claim that kids would have been in classes of only 10-15 kids and there would have been extra help and tutoring for kids behind (nothing of this happened anyway, but at least it was promised). with the AP plan there is nothing. this is the usual DCPS that cannot educate disadvantage kids and resort to BS papering over the reality, until journalists or others investigate and find the real data [/quote]

What is your basis for asserting that there is no plan to make this a successful endeavor?[/quote]

DP. Where is their plan to support lower performing kids to handle the advanced class?[/quote]

I don't know but the letter said "Moving to AP for all in both of the core English and Social Studies courses is an adaptive change that will require significant technical changes on the part of our staff." That suggests they recognize it's not simply a matter of making it a requirement and calling it a day.[/quote]

humm really? they have already made the change and all we have is their recognition that it may be a problem? so no plan to solve the problem? normally you have the plan in place to solve a problem before making a change that gets the problem. I am sure NASA knew how to make Armstrong land on the moon before they shoot him in space, they did not start thinking about the moon landing when he was already in orbit.

in this case, it looks like the plan is simply not there. it's an experiment on the backs of the kids. Based on past DCPS experience, DCPS will work hard to cover the data and it will take an external investigation to see how things are really going
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