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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you all seen the statistics on AP testing results? ABYSMAL. We are talking only 5-9% getting a 5 and that is with a curve.

I am not sure the point of AP classes in high school. High school teachers can not teach them like college professors and the kids don’t have the time to digest them.

Public’s really need to start follow private school lead and offer advanced honors courses that prepare the kids for college courses, not try to cram a college course in from Aug to April and having kids take multiple AP tests and missing other classes during school time to do it. It is just way too chaotic to have juniors taking SAT or ACT, SAT subject tests, AP finals, other finals, and term papers all in the span of 1-2 months. These kids aren’t LEARNING anything. It is anxiety induced memorization. 
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Agree about the teachers. You want college classes? Go to community college. [/quote]

Community college classes at ours (MC) are easily less rigorous than the AP classes that I teach.  I've had students in both.  Think about the cohorts...[/quote]

An AP course is usually taught over the course of 2 semesters, a CC course is generally only 1 semester.  There are pros and cons to both.  Certainly you have more of an opportunity to go into depth in a year long course than you would if the course was condensed into one semester.  [/quote]

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