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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to Lady’s platform when running  for a School Board seat:
…”In addition to her work in Fairfax County Public Schools, Robyn owns a small business that helps students and their families navigate the complicated and highly competitive college admissions process”…

https://www.robynlady.com/issues

Therefore, she knows better than most that AP classes are a path for college admissions.  So, why would she advise against them? Apparently, Lady is either proposing removal of AP classes in FCPS, which will be a disservice to high achieving students, or she may intend to do so in order to lower the curve to benefit her lower achieving clients.  Whatever be the case, let’s hope her real motive does not represent a conflict of interest between her business and her position with the school board. 
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I think she has been reading or talking to someone who works for Cambridge.  I doubt this is to help her "lower achieving clients."
Like Reid, she may just be attracted to the "new, shiny thing."

I suspect that she went to a convention and had someone sell her on this idea.  Vendors frequently try to convince people that what they are selling is the answer.
I taught school and went to a number of workshops and conventions.  It's easy to fall in the trap.  They love to swing the pendulum.  And, that is what I suspect this is.  Swinging the pendulum.

We don't need to swing this one.  What works?  Good, solid instruction.  Right now, AP seems to be the best and most tested choice.  Let's stick with that.

I hope Lady was just throwing out ideas.  She was likely sold a bill of goods by a vendor.

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