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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is funny. My kids went to public high school, one kid took 9, the other took 10. Both now at Ivies.

No class credit, but they got to skip a lot of first-year classes.

I think the most important part is that they seemed to like the AP classes in high school. And they did well on the AP tests. 
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I should add that I just asked my kids about this, and they said that nearly all their friends in college took a lot of APs. So it's interesting to see a lot of parents here getting all bent out of shape about it when they don't seem to really know that much about it. For the poster going on and on about AP's decline in the past 20 years, my kids would just laugh at you.

And my kids are the future. You are the past. [/quote]

The whole point of the AP program was originally to get class credit, and you yourself admit that your kids did not get any.  This already sounds like a failure.

Also, virtually every kid at a decent college these days has taken a lot of AP classes because AP has taken over public high school course offerings.  A random company has maneuvered control over national public high school education, and is profiting off of it.

You seem to have given this no thought yourself.[/quote]

I couldn't care less if they got class credit. And to be frank, my unconnected kids got into amazing colleges, not "decent" ones. But most importantly, they loved their AP classes, they thrived in them, they thought the tests were fair, and they have proven that they are well prepared for higher ed and competing with extremely bright kids. All this talk of eliminating AP tests is private schools trying to justify their existence in a world that cares less and less about them - and in fact, most universities hate them (unless individual families have university connections or are famous/influential or are big donors).

I have several friends whose schools stopped offering AP classes, but then the parents hired tutors and still had the kids take the AP tests.

Insanity. At any rate, we're happy with APs. They have served my kids well. They're certainly not sitting on DCUM second-guessing the history of APs and why schools like Landon (for mediocre kids) aren't offering them anymore.

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[b]The standard public high school curriculum, which is AP based[/b], is not the reason your kids were moderately successful.

Furthermore, your bias against private schools is on full display here.

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DP. The bolded is all anyone needs to know about this whole debate. Nothing to do with the actual content of AP, everything to do with trying to differentiate from the commoners.
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You have issues.[/quote]

And you clearly haven’t read this thread.[/quote]

The surprising thing is that so many private schools still use AP.[/quote]

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