(The SECOND of a four-part CNBNEWS  series Dumbing Down American Education)

Should students be able to do this?  Are they learning as much by taking AP courses online as they would in a college classroom?  No, absolutely not!  High school is high school and college is college.  They are different.  They are not interchangeable.   Internet courses are not of the same quality of classroom courses.  We know that as a result of closing schools during the pandemic.  When so many students are in an Advanced Placement program either the school is exceptional or the criteria for the AP program are not college level.

The Advanced Placement program was started in 1955 but didn’t get much traction until the late 1980s into the 1990s.  At that time suddenly every parent I knew was bragging that his/her children were in an Honors Program or Advance Placement.  Do I have that many exceptional friends?  I don’t think so.  

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