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According to the FCPS course catalog, TJHSST is not offering AP Precalculus next year. Presumably, they are staying with their existing TJ Math sequence. That makes sense. AP Precalculus is of no use to strong math and STEM students.
https://insys.fcps.edu/CourseCatOnline/reportPanel/1041/10/0/0/0/1;title=reportPanelSideNav

Unfortunately, math and STEM kids at other high schools will not be so lucky.[/quote]

Oh please, strong math and stem kids have tons of opportunities, no matter where they go. Just stop. [/quote]
They have many opportunities but they will lose honors Precalc Trig and be put into AP Precalculus which is a less rigorous course. Math is the backbone of STEM. Why do we want to water down their math preparation? We have a strong course now in honors Precalc Trig. There is no reason to change that. Introduce AP Precalculus for the kids it was designed for (regular Precalculus kids) and give them the opportunity to get an AP credit and all the benefits that the course creators envisioned. Both math and STEM kids and regular Precalculus kids are losing out by trying to introduce AP Precalculus as an honors course which it was never intended to be.[/quote]
PP again. Another puzzling thing about this policy decision is that it runs counter to FCPS's goal to move toward more equitable outcomes. If AP Precalculus was introduced for regular Precalculus kids, they'd get an AP credit and a +1 GPA boost which would enhance their transcript and provide them college credit. From an FCPS-wide perspective, this would make AP participation statistics less demographically skewed and would narrow the GPA achievement gap. Instead, FCPS is taking what some might consider to be the less equitable path; by imposing prerequisites for AP Precalculus, these kids are shut out even though course creators removed difficult Precalculus concepts and lowered minimum requirements (ie AP Precalculus assumes no prior exposure to logs) precisely so that they could succeed. That is another reason which makes this policy decision so hard to understand.[/quote]

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