Private school students also take AP courses. The curriculum is the same.
This private school student never took this crap. Our teachers were mostly rightwing zealots aka normal people.
1) I know for a fact that hundreds of high schools use our “A Patriot’s History of the United States,” most in preparation for AP.
2) I point out to parents that AP is a way to get out of taking the college class, but contrary to perceptions, taking the classes might be less biased. For example, in most schools, the intro classes are NOT taught by the far left tenured faculty. At my former university, almost all US intro/survey classes were taught by part timers.
It is an interesting fact that often the part timers and/or lecturers are far more conservative than the tenured faculty. For example, one university I’m familiar with had 2 Republicans out of a tenured faculty of 20, but out of about 10 part-timers/lecturers, at times fully half would be conservatives and/or Republicans, sometimes 7/10.
So despite the allure of “getting out of the class” to take other things, students might want to skip AP and take the class. And yes, I taught AP at the high school level, too.