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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am parent to a rising 8th grader who is considering private for high school.  This is the first I've heard about schools eliminating AP courses.

Could posters please share which schools are doing this, or have already done it?

Has anyone heard of this happening at the public high schools in Northern Virginia and Montgomery County, Maryland?

Is this mostly happening at IB schools or schools where a significant number of students enroll in credit-bearing college courses while still in high school?[/quote]

Landon, NCS, St Albans, Sidwell, Potomac.  Not SAES, or flint hill or SSSAS.  Others can offer more.[/quote]

GDS, Holton, Maret.

No public or Catholic schools are dropping APs.

And no, these schools are not switching to IB or dual enrollment programs. The schools are simply proceeding with no option for the kids to [b]take courses for college credit while in high school[/b]. [/quote]

This is not really true. They can take the Advanced courses at these schools and then still sit for the AP exams. Most of these schools still actually give the exams at school for any kids who want to take them. They simply have dropped the AP designation from the course titles and replaced them with Advanced or some similar title. Some of the courses , like Calc or science courses are still very similar to the AP curriculum. Other courses, like history or English courses may differ more greatly from the AP curriculum. If taking a lot of AP courses is what is most important to you, then I would advise saving your money and going to public school. That is not the focus or reason for sending your kids to independent schools [/quote]

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