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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not sure the factors you list create more meritocracy but the overall level of achievement is markedly higher today than back then. Whatever grade inflation and SAT scoring you want to cite, students are taking more advanced courses sooner than ever before. They’re just smarter than we ever were. [/quote]

Disagree. The “advanced” classes are easier than the “regular” classes of yesteryear. Heck, in many schools, particularly open-enrollment public high schools, there are no “regular” classes, every class is somehow “honors” or higher. Lots of kids taking AP exams and failing them. That is unfortunate as I think it’s better to take one AP exam, study really well for it, and get a 5 than take four AP exams in one month and get 3’s on all of them. Quality over quantity is not in vogue.[/quote]

I don’t the AP pass/fail rate has changed much in the last fifty years. What has changed is that the students who take them are comparatively younger. They take BC calc in 10th or 11th grade rather than 12th. APUSH as early as 9th.

I mean if you want to crap on students today (although i suspect what your actual agenda is to crap on public schools) go ahead, but it’s like claiming the peak of athletic achievement was in the 1980s. [/quote]

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