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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, all kids should be encouraged to take an AP Class, but not pressured. Plenty are college-ready, enough, without AP.
No, the grading should not be dumbed-down. A likely 3 on the AP Exam is a "C" in the HS class. Not likely to even pass the Exam? No way should they be getting a C in the HS AP class.[/quote]

This is stupid. How you do on the exam is no indicative of how you do in the class. Those exams are a specific animal and the questions are often hard to understand (even for me reading the practice tests and I am an excellent test taker). There is not that correlation for a lot of kids. [/quote]

Yes it is.  This is an extremely standardized class with tons of outside standardized material. Any tutor knows exactly what chapter 4 entails. While some people aren't great test takers if you aren't probably AP classes aren't for you for one but also the class specifically teaches to this one test so they absolutely should correlate.[/quote]

Why are you making such gross generalizations. OF COURSE you can take and AP class if you aren't a good test taker. Our APUSH teacher's tests, quizzes, assignments, flashcards and a billion other assignment are not the same as the standarized APUSH exam. It's isn't. The other APUSH class at our school doesn't give near the number of assignments my child's does and DC is doing well. Really well. So OFC DC should be taking that regardless of what happens on the AP exam (the only AP taken before had an A in the class but 3 on the exam).

Further, not everyone can just run out and get a tutor to help prepare for every AP class, if that's what you're implying. [/quote]

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