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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry I see bulk of the kids are getting a 1. How embarrassing. Either they don’t care, in which case don’t take the expensive test, or they don’t know much if the material and don’t know how to study. [/quote]

From your "embarrassing" comments, I'm going to assume you have elementary school kids, who are still years away from taking AP or IB classes. Kids scoring 1s and 2s on AP exams does not mean they didn't benefit from taking the class or exam. This is all preparation to help kids be prepared for and successful in college.

- signed someone who bombed her AP trig exam, and later got an A in trig in college[/quote]

Disagree completely. Yes, if most students are getting 1s and 2s on the AP exam, than either the teaching wasn't good or the students were not ready for that level of class. It's one thing for a few kids to do poorly, but when the bulk of the students are doing poorly than the school needs to look at the root cause.

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What were these kids supposed to do? They reached the level of AP math. There is no high school level calculus, and math is required all 4 years of high school by the state. You have to register for the exams a couple of months before the exam. If it’s free exam for low income kids, what’s the harm in taking it? Taking a cumulative AP exam is a good experience to have before going to college/post HS training where you will encounter cumulative testing.

For whatever reason Kennedy kids are not doing well the calculus exam does not mean the class was a complete waste or that the students are bad.[/quote]

The point is to find out why the Kennedy kids are doing so poorly. Try to fix the problem instead of just saying, "oh, well", at least they took the class. You can't score lower than a 1 on an AP exam. [/quote]

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