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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yet another thread for folks to freak out on. 🙄 Including all students in AP classes is not cancelling AP classes.[/quote]

Yes, yes it is.

If everyone is in AP -- including students 3+ years below grade level who don't want to be there -- and teachers are discouraged from giving failing grades, then there is effectively no AP.

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But this isn't the case for DC....OP is just stirring the pot with lies. 
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This is the case for dc. It’s so cloying how you all you so excited to fall on your sword, and hold advanced children back from their potential, in some neo-communism style “we all fail together in ap for all” attempt at engineering social progress. It won’t help. It will fail in the long run and retard progress for our country. There are better ways to tackle racial inequity, but this ain’t it. This is basically racism and punishing certain demographics to try and raise others. It’s poorly reasoned. The scary part is anyone who criticizes it is somehow “racially insensitive”. Groupthink idiots. Sorry.[/quote]

Oh, hey, I'll say it again, troll, don't destroy good willing people's arguments.

This isn't social engineering progress, it's social engineering progress theater to hide that we are STILL giving zero resources to actually supporting the kids who are several grades behind. 
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Resources are given. Most in the nation. Where are the families? Where is the culture of celebrating education?[/quote]

money is spent but this does not mean resources are given to the kids. we were promised that with Honors for All in 9th grade kids were having classes with 10, 15 kids max so teachers could identify and support kids who were behind. most of my kid's classes last year in 9th grade had  around 30 kids and one had 37. so kids were not given what was promised. do you think that when a teacher entered into the class with 37 kids he was able to identify and supports kids who were behind? this is the usual DCPS dance to hide the real screw up in educating kids from disadvantage background. DCPS has done it for years, from elementary schools posting 10-20% improvements  in scores in just a year thanks to teachers changing wrong answers during standardized tests (so the kids who were actually struggling were not helped at a time when it would have been easier) to Ballou celebrating 100% college admission on graduating kids who had missed 4 months of school and were barely literate in some cases .  see what this Ballou teacher said about his experience with DCPS ""I've never seen kids in the 12th grade that couldn't read and write," says Butcher about his two decades teaching in low-performing schools from New York City to Florida. But he saw this at Ballou, and it wasn't just one or two students" https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/11/28/564054556/what-really-happened-at-the-school-where-every-senior-got-into-college.  what Wilson is doing now is the same, hiding the problems and just going on with the BS to celebrate that now everybody is an AP student. the BS will come out eventually, as it did in the other cases but in the meantime a few classes of kids will finish HS screwed[/quote]

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