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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know someone who went to Broad Run who said they read excepts of books instead of books. In AP Lit!

This came up because I was joking about the new Wuthering Heights adaptation and she said she never read it. She said they read excepts of books from a long list to prep for the AP exam.

So don’t assume it’s a certain kind of kid being underserved by the education system. [/quote]

LOL this! We are in Silicon Valley. The physics, chem, and engineering classes are top notch. My oldest was building circuit boards in her courses while her cousin north of Sacramento was making a kitchen cutting board in his. Crazy difference in rigor and curriculum. However, math, english and history are a joke at our school. APUSH had zero required reading, tests were vocabulary and multiple choice with one or two short answer questions. The second semester was basic test prep from the college board resources. My youngest was so annoyed that the teacher, in an effort to bring up grades of the lower performing kids let everyone drop their worst test AND if you showed up for the AP test you got an extra 100% test score. My youngest ended up doing all his senior year classes in the local community college honors program. [/quote]
APUSH has never had required reading, because the point is to give the teacher flexibility on how they want to teach content. You don’t have to do a daily 100 pages of reading to understand the content in APUSH. The ideal is English courses holding the weight of forcing students to read lengthy passages and novels, and history be focused on analyzing sources, interpreting basic legal decisions in conversation with fields, and getting a comprehensive thread of how our country developed.

I’m more resistant, because historical writing is particularly dry and repetitive. Historians like to lay out their deck of cards and don’t really engage in flair. It’s good we teach our children but also engage them.[/quote]

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