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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]STA has kept them.  [/quote]

[b]No AP classes is ok if your school has 100% fantastic teachers.  But no school — including Holton — has 100% fantastic teachers.  The lack of AP removes the guardrail protecting against a bad teacher.  With AP in place, a bad teacher still has to follow a scheduled curriculum.  Without AP, a bad teacher can proceed completely unchecked by fear of accountability from AP test scores (or the need to get through a scheduled curriculum).[/quote][/b]

THis.  Because while it is known that the big 3 don't have them, it is not known that Holton is dropping them so it is going to take several years for college and universities to catch up.  Presumably this now means that a 4.0 is the top GPA at Holton, correct?  That is a problem when you are competing against a 4.6 from MCPS or FCPS for a slot in a school.  Presumably, the college advisor will be on top of this but it will mean a sea change.[/quote]

Every college/university recalibrates GPAs to fit their individual admissions structure (and knows how each HS grades, btw, and weather grades are weighted, how much, what Al’s are offered etc).  Maybe your child is too young for you to be concerning yourself about those details of college admissions, but that is widely known once you start looking at universities.[/quote]

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