Reply to How is the elimination of APs going for your DC

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "How is the elimination of APs going for your DC"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ if they are identical between the local
Public and Sidwell (and that is generous)  then what is the academic benefit of doing the AP? And I challenge you to find anyone who graduated HYP early because they took AP.  Do you work for the college board or something?  Otherwise I’m not sure why you are so defensive of AP.[/quote]

The classes are identical meaning they have the same content and standards, they don’t teach different math in privates. But there are other advantages, ie students have a preselected socioeconomic and academic profile, (maybe) better teachers, smaller teacher to student ratio. These are factors that can contribute to the students being successful in the class and matter a lot for writing as an example.

That’s why people pay for privates, not because their calculus also covers multivariable.[/quote] These are all also present when the private offers an AP course, so these are not advantages to a private no longer offering AP courses.[/quote]

Privates no longer offering APs is just theatrical move. The classes are the same just not called AP anymore, so the only thing changed is having to find a place to take the exam instead of the home school. To me it just shows a lack of integrity from the administration.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics