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Re: Public Schools [NOISE]
attila:
>= .> a very unusual situation --but I live in rural southern
>= .> utah where the regional middle school of 1200 can support 4
>= .> bands, the top 2 being very impressive, and provide full AP
>= .> classes, and ACT
Tim:
>= .Wow! Utah is teaching AP? Is Jim Bell being brought in as a
>= .Special Lecturer?
attilla
> come on, Tim... you are not that old. AP has three meanings
> (at least):
> 1. Associated Press (news gathering)
> 2. Advanced Placement (as in college credit for HS classes)
> 3. not widely known: Jim Bell's Assassination Political
Hey, if a high school can teach kids to read the Associated Press
critically and think about what it's saying and means, they're doing
a really fine job! For that matter, if they can teach kids to just
read the news at all, they're accomplishing something.
I was surprised by the idea of teaching Advanced Placement classes
in a middle school - in the reasonably high-quality public school I went to,
most of the AP classes were taken by 12th graders and a few by 11th-graders,
though this was partly because that's when we started getting slack in our
schedules after taking the regular courses.
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