[quote=flu]Interesting….The AP pass rate though isn’t it 55%?
versus say westview which is 83%?
I don’t know but the numbers don’t seem to tell the entire story…
For instance San Marcos indicates 100% of the student body participates in AP classes. But if 55% only pass,
Westview, only 67% participate in AP but 83% pass…
To me, this seems that SM is doing a lousy job culling kids that shouldn’t be taking AP in the first place, wasting resources on kids that are taking AP that shouldn’t be, at the expense of other kids who would do well…. It sounds cool to send ever kid to AP Calculus, but if 45% aren’t gonna make it, what’s the point besides looking good on paperv that you sent 100% of the students to AP? It seems more like a misappropriation of resources, because you’re spending time on kids that had no shot at passing AP…
Versus I think other schools that already have weeded out kids that wouldn’t have passed and not placed them into the AP program to begin with, allowing the school the focus resources more effectively….
Seems like just a numbers game to me to make things look better.[/quote]
“…is based on the key principles that a great high school must serve all of its students well, not just those who are college-bound….” so it appears that you are correct in that SMHS does try to pull the less gifted up by their bootstraps, which I find somewhat commendable.
