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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]

Except this is not how any school handles teaching - no AP does not mean that there is a lack of accountability. Our experience is at Holton where the curriculum is well thought out, and a lack of AP test scores doesn't mean that there aren't metrics in place.  Each of the departments has a chair and a committee of teachers that has a long arc of planning and developing the curriculum. Sure, individual teachers have different approaches to how they teach, but as a whole, the curriculum is followed. The real benefit of not administering the AP test is that the curriculum is more dynamic and able to change with the times, and is often more interesting and thought provoking for the students and the teachers.[/quote]
The math, science and history college prep courses are “changing with the times.”  Yikes.

Is this what the UK, Japanese, Indian and French’s school systems are doing too? Changing core subjects and teaching “with the times.”?[/quote]

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