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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate how AP leads to teaching to the test. That high schools and teachers brag about their kids' scores (so it becomes self-serving, rather than student-centered).

Also, kids lose a month of education if the schools requires no real content/teaching after the AP test.  I wish the whole system would go away.[/quote]

It teaches to the test which measures whether or not material that should have been learned has been learned. AP classes are supposed to replace 100 level survey classes not seminar classes and survey classes tend to cover a ton of material with very little depth so that kids taking more advanced classes will have a broad grounding and kids who never take another class in the subject have some basic grasp of it[/quote]

If AP classes and exams are intended to replace 100 level college classes then the fact that kids take them at age 14 and do well is an indictment of our college system. [/quote]

Exactly...which is why the "good" schools generally do not accept them.  [/quote]

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