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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just a heads up DCPS will only offer AP Precalc next year.  No honors course or non AP precalc course.  They say if a kid is taking precalc they must be on an advanced math track and should take the AP version.  DCPS has this amazing way of always focusing on the wrong things.[/quote]

Why would anyone want to take non-AP precalc?[/quote]

I was thinking more like why would anyone want to take AP pre Calc? Pre Calc isn’t a college course.  It’s like taking AP Algebra II.  It doesn’t make sense.[/quote]

With AP precalc, you know what the curriculum is. Kids in DCPS studying AP Precalc will cover the same topics as kids in FCPS and MCPS and California. And you can confirm that with the AP exam. With “DCPS precalc,” who knows what you’re getting?[/quote]

Lots of DCPS AP classes don’t cover the curriculum.  Just look at AP scores.[/quote]

That was my point: we can know if our kids are successfully learning the AP curriculum because we see their AP scores. With the non-AP precalc you favor, there’s no way to know if anyone is learning anything. [/quote]

So in July your kid gets a bad ap score and you realize they didn’t learn anything and what, get a tutor lined up for next year? [/quote]

Actually, with AP courses, teachers can give unit tests on the College Board’s AP Classroom website. So the kids get real-time feedback on how they are performing against the College Board standard. One of my kid’s classes did one just this week, so if a tutor was advisable, I would be able to see that already. [/quote]

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