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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Remember that a lot of students use the AP classes to defray the cost of college.  You limit the number of APs and you can be adding thousands of dollars of costs to college. [/quote]

This has nothing to do with limiting the # of APs students can take.  The change is to make students who aren't taking core classes all 4 years at least meet that standard.[/quote]

Except it limits students by holding them back.  It calls for detracking and heterogenous classrooms. Without advanced math starting in elementary school and middle school, students will be able to take fewer AP math and science classes.

Currently, a student in advanced math may take Algebra 1 in 6th-7th for the advanced kids, with geometry in 7th or 8th, and Algebra 2 in 8th or 9th. These kids are in calculus their sophomore or junior year, multivariable calculus in 11th or 12th. Advanced science classes may track along with those math classes.  And as students free up space, they may have room for other options.

So it may be an unintended consequence, but it most certainly does limit options as it has been described.

Their page talks in abstract terms without making the updates easy to understand in practical terms.  I would love to see them answer a few questions in concrete terms.

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