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Depending on the exam and the college, some colleges will give credit for a score of a 4 or a 5 and some even for a 3 on Calculus BC. This helps the college student accelerate faster through the college program and can save some money. Most of the top schools want to see AP exams on student transcripts but will not give college credit for them; they will still be required to take psych. 101 no matter what.
Elminating the AP exams reduces staff. More layoffs. More parents having to shell out college tuition for introductory classes. There's also less of an opportunity for the student to see if this is a subject that they may wish to pursue for further study. Also the AP classes are theoretically a one semester college class taught over a full year. There's a little more hand-holding at the high school level than at college where students usually have to teach themselves. This can be helpful for a weak subject and some students may take the course over in college anyway, but having the background from HS helps.
The point is that some AP class material can be taught to talented students concurrently with the regents level material, such as Global and US history. This would just be a form of tracking amd really should not affect staffing and educational costs. Other AP classes, such as some of the sciences would have to be taught after completion of the regents level class. And then there are elective subjects that offer AP credit such as Studio Art, Art History, Music theory, psychology, which if taken and accepted by the college, can be applied towards the student's undergrad degree. These will affect teaching hiring practices.
My, how did we ever get by without the AP courses?
I didn't take any because I went to ghetto schools that didn't offer any. It hurt me as I was not as a competetive candidate or as well prepared as other students.
There was an article in todays Newsday indicating many schools are dropping AP classes due to budget shortfalls, Copaigue, Middle Country and others. This is really no surprise because the school boards have done nothing to control the budgets. School teacher contract increases averaging above 5 % in this economy and they act surprised, please. Many of these districts are bonding to pay the shortfalls in pension costs, add in the current contract increases and this is what you get.
What school district is giving a five percent raise? I've never seen anything close to that and I've been teaching for fifteen years.
I didn't take any because I went to ghetto schools that didn't offer any. It hurt me as I was not as a competetive candidate or as well prepared as other students.
What school district is giving a five percent raise? I've never seen anything close to that and I've been teaching for fifteen years.
You are kidding, right? What SD do you teach in? I want to make sure my kid doesn't have you for math.
Go to seethroughny.net and download the teacher contract from any SD on LI and yopu can easily calculate 5% raises per tear over the past decade for the majority of steps.
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