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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone unpack this objectively? Surprised by the negativity, particularly want to check the following:

1. The new offerings lower academic rigor by replacing TJ-specific courses with APs?  --True or false?
2. If so, and if causes grade inflation, would that paradoxically put TJ students on more equal footing with base-school students where GPAs are already inflated?  --True or false?
3. The new courses reduce or eliminate interdisciplinary, collaborative teaching at TJ.  --True or false?
4. The principal is pursuing an agenda to make TJ less rigorous and more "consistent with" other FCPS schools? --True or false?

Please no bias no spin, if you can.

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1. This probably varies, but as someone who has taught several different AP courses, the college board curriculum is very watered-down. AP does not necessarily mean more rigor. 
2. Maybe true on paper, but this also means that TJ students cannot distinguish themselves as much as non-TJ students. 
3. True. [b]This has already happened, especially in Humanities. It would not surprise me at all if IBET eventually goes away.[/b] 
4. Mukai doesn't care about rigor either way. He is simply a numbers person and just wants to boost AP numbers as much as possible. [/quote]

Do you have specific examples?
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He forced in AP Seminar, is getting rid of Global Studies next year, and by moving AP Lang to 11th grade, this eliminates the English 11 Honors and APUSH teaming. HUM 1, HUM 2, and Global Studies had been benchmarks of the Humanities division for many years. [/quote]

That’s too bad. I thought that humanities combo approach was a really good thing. [/quote]

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