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Oklahoma legislative committee questions legality of Advanced Placement courses in public schools
Tulsa World ^
| 02/17/2015
| RANDY KREHBIEL
Posted on 02/17/2015 10:53:14 AM PST by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004
Taxpayer money should ONLY pay for stupidity! Yes!!!
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posted on
02/17/2015 10:56:02 AM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
To: GIdget2004
I don’t know anything about AP History. But I am very familiar with AP Physics and AP Chemistry. Those last two programs are focused and challenging, the real deal.
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posted on
02/17/2015 10:57:32 AM PST
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: GIdget2004
Taxpayer money should not be b used to fund AP classes. I already paid for my kids’ college education; I shouldn’t have to pay for yours, also.
To: GIdget2004
I took AP U.S.History in 1971. It was substantially non political. My understanding is that has changed. Now it it leftist, revisionist, PC History.
Public schools are a scourge on America!
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posted on
02/17/2015 11:01:53 AM PST
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: Leaning Right
” AP Physics and AP Chemistry. “
Hard to F up these courses. They are based on factual data.
See post 5 though.
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posted on
02/17/2015 11:03:39 AM PST
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stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: Leaning Right
Possibly that is why Obomination feels so threatened about schools having AP History, that this course is both focused and challenging...and truthful, which the man cannot stand truth. The young minds of this country must not know what actually did happen and hyper-accurate accounts of such involving U.S. and world history, because then they might not...be doomed to repeat it.
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posted on
02/17/2015 11:05:31 AM PST
by
Patriot777
(Imagine....that we could see Obama being hauled out of the White House kicking and screaming?)
To: stephenjohnbanker
I had AP History in 1966. Very tough, definitely at the college level.
To: Labyrinthos
” Taxpayer money should not be b used to fund AP classes.”
You should rethink this. Aside from leftist AP English and History, AP is the only thing that prepares our kids for college. Regular college prep courses are so watered down, they are not worth much.
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posted on
02/17/2015 11:08:01 AM PST
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stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: labyrinth
The AP math book isn't significantly different in price than the remedial math book, and the teachers for both classes ride the same seniority based pay scales.
You aren't paying extra for AP.
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posted on
02/17/2015 11:08:49 AM PST
by
slowhandluke
(It's hard to be cynical enough in this age.)
To: buffaloguy
My AP History course was excellent as well. Those were the days : )
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posted on
02/17/2015 11:09:18 AM PST
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stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: GIdget2004
Some opponents of Common Core apparently have now turned their guns on Advanced Placement courses.Aruh? As a former AP student, I think they may be off the rails with this one.
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posted on
02/17/2015 11:09:54 AM PST
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: GIdget2004
Advanced Placement is a nationally recognized series of courses and tests developed by the College Board, a private entity, with the assistance of high school and college facultyAP US History has become a purely cultural Marxist exercise in deconstruction.
The exam (which you have to get a 4 or 5 on to claim the credit) is like a Chinese Cultural Revolution exercise in self-criticism. If your kid is uncomfortable denouncing his own people and his own country, he should stay away.
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posted on
02/17/2015 11:10:24 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
To: slowhandluke
” You aren’t paying extra for AP. “
Correct. What you DO get with AP is a much more demanding course of study.
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posted on
02/17/2015 11:11:56 AM PST
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stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: Jim Noble
Jim, you have just confirmed what a good friend told me about what his son had for content in his AP History course.
The Marxists have apparently done the same with AP English.
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posted on
02/17/2015 11:17:06 AM PST
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stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: GIdget2004
Perhaps our discussion of the Oklahoma matter might benefit from a look at this Free Republic
from August 2014, as well as
here.
To: GIdget2004
AP courses are a rip off because too many students don’t get the proper instruction to pass the test after paying the $$. Better to take dual credit classes so you get actual college credit.
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posted on
02/17/2015 11:30:19 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Labyrinthos
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posted on
02/17/2015 11:31:30 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Jim Noble
About 5 years ago, only about 40% passed the test. Not worth stressing your kid out for it.
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posted on
02/17/2015 11:33:55 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
To: Leaning Right
They had a big conflict over the AP history course last Oct in Colorado.
The conservatives took over the school board and decided they wouldn't use AP because it wasn't patriotic and would hire someone to write the curriculum.
The students went out on strike complaining they wanted to get advanced placement.
I'm not sure what came of that.
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