Quote Originally Posted by stacie View Post
According to our principal, our super wants all kids taking AP classes in high school. Therefore, everyone must take advanced classes now to prepare for that rigorous workload.
This is a knuckleheaded idea, but not unusual, judging from my experience with AP exams. I scored AP English exams for a week in June, and I could tell that many of the students were nowhere near prepared to do that level of critical thought and writing. In some cases, the students wrote little notes in their exam booklets, essentially saying they were required to take the test and asking for the graders' mercy since they knew they didn't have a snowball's chance in he*l of passing. It was sad, really.