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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I support eliminating AP in FCPS. When a class is built around one national exam in May, the whole year bends toward that one and only finish line. Teachers feel the clock, units get rushed, and kids learn to chase coverage instead of wrestling with ideas. You get fewer long labs and no extended writing projects because those take time. That’s not a knock on our teachers, its just what the AP pacing guide demands.  If FCPS were to ditch the AP exam treadmill, we can slow down and ask students to produce REAL work like papers, data analyses, product design and performances.  This would allow students to actually learn how to think vs just learning how to just recall under a stopwatch.

Also, the research on AP for college prep is pretty dim.  High scores do not correlate with better outcomes because those students never really learned the material. Simply sitting in an AP seat doesn’t move the needle much. FCPS can build equally rigorous advanced courses that are writing and analysis heavy, with capstones and move away from just enriching the College Board. [/quote]

If students were not learning the material, colleges would not be granting credit.[/quote]

When colleges are $40,000/year for the "cheap" schools and almost $100 000/year for the expensive schools, FCPS needs to stick with the program that gives grads the best outcome on receiving college credit, which is far and away AP.

There is no comparison.  Paying money for any program like IB or whatever this Cambridge program is, is a complete waste of taxpayer money.  The school board would be more fiscally responsible if they were sitting on the steps of gatehouse lighting cash on fire to roast marshmallows, than switching from AP to some European program that does not have the portability across the US and outcome in college credits that AB provides.[/quote]

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