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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You may not be aware of this but today AP & honors classes are the regular classes. [b]Over the years these have been watered down[/b] so that more people are able to participate. This has affected the rigor of these classes. [/quote]

Do you have any evidence that the content of the AP US History class (for example) is less rigorous than it used to be at some point in the past (when?)?[/quote]

NP who teaches APUSH.  The course outline has not been watered down.  I do feel that the new multiple choice questions based on documents require less historical knowledge.  On the other hand, they may not be easier because sometimes they are subjective.  Still many of the adults on DCUM who mock APs probably wouldn't pass.[/quote]

Back when I was in public HS @FCPS, there was roughly a half-dozen AP classes offered and we didn't get extra grade points for taking them. From a class of 600, there was typically 30 kids enrolled in any one of these classes, but this was just the kids in the top 5% in terms of GPA. [/quote]

That doesn't mean that the content has been watered down. It just means that more people take AP classes than used to. I think that's a good thing.[/quote]

The problem is people aren't smarter than they were a few decades ago. When 30% of a class takes AP vs 3% there is a difference in the content. [/quote]

No. The AP course is the AP course, whether it's taught at high schools that allow everybody to take the class who wants to or at high schools that only allow certain people to take the class.[/quote]

lol you can't be serious.  There are schools where you have people taking AP that are several grade levels behind.  There is no way that course is the same level of rigor as a course with students who are actually ready for college level material[/quote]

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