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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s something weird about kids paying more for study help on AP exams in these elite schools. Surely the school would offer free exams and tutoring in the name of equity?[/quote]

The point is although the classes do not have an AP designation, they still prepare students for material on the exam. The decision to hire tutors to study for the AP exam is usually precipitated by parents for many reasons, including the misguided belief that their children must learn how to take the exam. Why should a school teach students test strategies? What does it tell us about these classes that teach students about the strategy of standardized test taking instead of covering the actual material on the exam? The reality is astute students should know to pore over past AP exams to get a sense of what the test looks like, what to expect, etc.[/quote]

Continues to boggle my mind why we are paying what we pay and we'll be honest- we certainly had hopes of our top 3 private being a doorway into a better school choice. Anyone who says something different is probably fooling themselves. No one pays 45k a year with hopes for UMD. Or with outside tutoring for APs becoming necessary to play this crappy game. The public grading system is really screwing us all.[/quote]

If privates keep APs, then there is a very easy point of comparison. Public school students know that they have to load of on AP classes if they want to go to a good college, so they'll have scores that either serve to validate a high GPA or to call it into question. Maybe if privates encouraged them the way publics do, their students could point to 10 5s to demonstrate that their 3.2 GPA would have been a 4.8 in public. [/quote]

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