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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, they're really ill prepared academically and emotionally. I've been teaching college for 20 years and in the last 4 years students have gotten much more demanding. [/quote]

All this AP class is not helping ?[/quote]

AP classes are taught to the test. And in many schools, once the test is over they stop learning. 
Kids get the message from this that the point is not knowledge/education, it is a score/grade.[/quote]

NP. This is why our DC wanted to do the IB curriculum in high school instead of AP. Much more writing was required in IB than what DC's friends in AP were doing, and it seemed that the IB exams required more critical thinking (and yet more writing) than AP exams. Even in IB math courses, students have to write.

IB gets bashed on DCUM all the time by parents who have never had a kid in the curriculum. Yet we know a lot of families who say their kids were extremely well prepared for college and don't get flustered when assigned research papers etc. DC was well prepared for college by IB too. It's not perfect, but it does produce HS grads who have experience with HAVING to write a lot even if they don't love writing. [/quote]

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