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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend  is  a TA in a very reputable college. One of her students is a top BASIS DC graduate with very high recommendations.  She is totally confused  as the young man who has passed multiple APs with "5" s is struggling in a subject which he supposedly excelled in. [/quote]

Your friend should lose her position for discussing a student’s performance with you. University faculty and staff can’t even discuss a student’s performance with the students’s parent without the student’s explicit permission.

She is in violation of federal laws and her university’s policies. It reflects far more poorly on her than on the supposedly struggling student.

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NP here.
Maybe this is one of the reason why Walls is requesting for the APs to be retaken. Walls has a good reputation and a student who has mastered a college-level subject by scoring a "5" should not be struggling in the same subject. Isn't this why colleges give credit for AP courses? [/quote]

Walls could just test the incoming BASIS students who have passed the AP exam. Ask them to take a practice AP exam and prove they have mastered the subject (or not), the same as they do for math now.

But they won't.[/quote]

Retesting is fine for <4 on the AP, but why in the world wouldn’t a DCPS high school accept a student with a 5? Arrogant or lazy or both? [/quote]

Actually a 3 is passing. Most colleges - including elites - give credit for a 4 or 5. But yeah DCPS knows better. [/quote]

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