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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP sorry I meant all Juniors take AP Language and Composition[/quote]

Walls only requires 2 APs?[/quote]

Why is that a question?  Most schools (public and private) don’t require a kid take any APs.  Basis is the outlier the other way.[/quote]

Basis requires at least 6 APs to graduate, starting in 8th grade.  Of course, kids often take many more.[/quote]

Most kids at Walls take 6 APs.  Many take 9-10 APs.  I don’t think requiring 6 is that meaningful.[/quote]

Right, most kids, not all.

Every kid at BASIS takes at least 6 AP exams and most take over a dozen.[/quote]

But do they pass? I know kids at Basis who took AP Calc in 8th grade and got a 2.  What purpose does that serve?[/quote]
There's no way that happened.  Very few kids are skipped ahead to that degree.  The kids who are were knocking it out the park with math.  If they had any struggles along the way, they would have been bumped back down a level.  Or, they would have been forced to take the slower pre-calculus sequence.  In calculus, if the over-accelerated kid weren't pretty much guaranteed to pass the AP, they wouldn't have been allowed to take it.

My kid took the Calc AP in 8th and got a 5.  He was the only kid in his grade skipped up to that level, and there weren't any kids in the grade above or behind who were double skipped like that.  The person who "knows" "kids" (plural) at Basis who took AP Calc in 8th and got 2s is most likely the Basis hater who shows up on every thread trashing Basis or making things up to make Basis look bad.  [/quote]

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