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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing I did find interesting about kaya's testimony- AP academy. She mentioned that she was looking into establishing an AP academy for students of all HS to attend. Since she could not justify full AP classes at some of the under enrolled HS, it would be beneficial to have a stand alone academy with different subject matters. I hope this materializes. [/quote]

Exactly how is it a good idea to take AP classes away from underenrolled high schools?
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She said that should could not fiscally justify having all the requisite AP classes in a HS with low enrollment. The only HS in the city with an enrollment for which she could justify more than a handful of AP courses was Wilson. PP, do you think that only the students at Wilson should be afforded the opportunity of a smorgasbord of AP courses, while students at other schools are offered only three or four?  [/quote]

I think it would be an awful idea to take away AP classes from Wilson to have just one central location in town where kids are supposed to go to take the classes. I understand from another thread that the idea would be to have AP classes somewhere downtown DC from 2pm to 8pm and on Saturday morning. I think the person who had this idea was on crack. this would make Impossible for kids to have after school activities, waste a lot of time commuting to and from the AP location and would make for a very long day. I have kids in elementary school zoned for Deal and Wilson. we want our kids to go to public school, if this kind of proposal is approved, we would move out of DC (unless we can get into a charter), and do not think we would be the only ones. Wilson works, I do not see the advantage of ruining it.  hopefully, DCPS can come up with a proposal that would help the under-enrolled HS without damaging Wilson.  I think kicking out Henderson would be a good start (like others, I found her comment about turning to charters for MS upsetting). I am happy to be taxed a little more to provide additional funds to other HS is more money is needed. combining other under-enrolled HS could also be an idea (the DC map shows that Wilson cover almost half of the town, while all other HS combined the other half. maybe some of them could be  closed and their resources put together.  taking away the AP classes from Wilson forcing Wilson's students to travel back and forth somewhere else seems very stupid to me[/quote]

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