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OP, you need to relax. You seem wound extremely tight. Why do you care? I grew up in a crappy school system where we barely had honors/AP, was a terrible high school student but excellent writer and test-taker, made it in to Big State U (miraculously, if you ask my parents) and graduated magna cum laude. I didn't feel unprepared. Maybe because I was "only" at Big State U and not an Ivy. But seriously. Your snowflake will be OK, honors/AP or the horror of "regular" curriculum. And if you live anywhere in MoCo or Northern VA, your regular kid already has a leg up on kids from where I come from. Funny, all the Ffx Co kids at my college were cheating off me in class. [/quote]

1. You grew up in a different generation. It is so much more stratified these days. Normal courses used to be challenging — they're all a joke now.

2. Because over 40% of kids are failing out of university and I guarantee if you isolated kids who didn't take Honors-Advanced-AP courses it's more like 80%. That's a hell of a lot of money blown because gullible parents assumed their A-B-C idiot was ready for college. And obviously exploitative colleges admit everyone with a pulse who has access to grants and loans.[/quote]

Now no kids can get less than 50% grade unless they don't show up, Fs don't exist anymore in DCPS or other major school districts. That is one reason folks go crazy when they see PARCC or SOL data, they don't have a clue how their kids are performing as most kids get A and Bs. [/quote]

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