Reply to AP tests

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "AP tests—why??"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private schools in the DMV collectively did away with AP classes because they wanted to distinguish themselves from public schools.  They wanted to be able to market themselves as being "special," and they couldn't do that if they were offering the same classes as the public schools.  Not only that, because they're smaller than publics they couldn't offer the full variety of APs that the publics can.

In other words, they did away with APs because they couldn't compete.

The problem is that private school parents both like APs and are Uber competitive.  They worry that without taking AP classes and exams their kids are at a disadvantage.  So they want their kids in private schools AND they want them taking AP exams.

That's what they do it.[/quote]
You realize there are only a few private schools in the DMV that do not offer AP classes, right? You make it sound like none of them do. Eight of them collectively announced several years ago that they were dropping APs, and at least two of those (NCS and STA) went back to offering them.

The majority of private HS in the area offer at least some APs. [/quote]

Right.  All the ones generally considered "best" did, and they did it collectively, because they felt threatened.  The remaining privates never really held themselves out to be "better" than public schools academically--they market themselves as being "special" in other ways--so they didn't feel threatened by public school curriculum.  [/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