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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you were a kid, college wasn’t an assumption.  Now, more kids are going to college, so there is a push to make things more academic.  
You see it as not academic, yet in FCPS and MCPS and Arlington there is a push to get all 8th graders to take algebra and have 6th graders take it as well. 
More kids are taking AP classes than when you were a kid.

So basically, you perspective is skewed and things are more academic so parents want their kids to get even further ahead and they use tutoring to help. [/quote]

No... the actual foundations were stronger in the past.  Yes, there are more AP classes, but they are now much easier to pass and the requirements have been watered down.  You are deluding yourself if you think that kids are more "academic" now.  It is a veneer.[/quote]

Agreed. For example, AP precalc is easier and covers less material than a traditional precalc class. Both AP English classes at our kids' school are so "difficult" that they barely have time to read and discuss one whole novel from cover to cover--yes, no exaggeration and pathetic.

AP tests in the past were meant for serious students so the rigor was much higher. Now it's meant for volume to sell more tests. At our kids' public hs, the "normal" course for a few subjects is the AP version (including the English classes mentioned above), which is why some of the classes are taught at a sped level for the kids who can't keep up; yet the vast majority of the kids still passed the AP test because it's so easy.

I think many of the parents who think the schools around the DMV didn't go to very good high schools themselves. We've known (through sports and other activities) kids that have attended many of the top schools in the area, and after talking with parents, I can 100% say that many parents have no clue what a good hs should be like.[/quote]

Plus precalc used to be a regular class.  Now it’s an AP.  Give me a break [/quote]

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