I got an email yesterday from a high school senior girl who took AP English. There was not a single comma or period in her paragraph. Nothing was capitalized. Unbelievable.
I’ll keep on homeschooling my kids. They seem to have no problems getting scholarships and getting into colleges. And once there, they are at the tops of their classes. And I did it all without AP classes. Imagine!
By the nineteen seventies University schools of education had practically eliminated courses on teaching the exceptional child. Today, such a course might exist as an elective. It was always a difficult sell to interest the prospective teacher of mediocre aptitude to take an interest in the best of his or her students. It is always so much easier to teach to the mediocrities.
Yeah, but I bet her self-esteem was AWESOME!/sarc
Homeschooling is inherently advanced placement because it’s teaching kids at the level they’re ready for instead of trying to fit 30-40 kids into the same rate of learning.