Agreed-- but I've been working on that for nearly 25 years, and it's
still my default to avoid tasks where success isn't certain in my mind. I have learned to enjoy learning, however, as opposed to "knowing."
Anyway. Tangential either way, I suppose.
My personal preference is for collegiate instruction, when moving beyond high school algebra and geometry. I feel that college instruction is better able to accommodate students who are divergent/creative thinkers with respect to material. High school teachers who lack graduate degrees (and, with no small frequency even a
regular undergraduate emphasis in the subject) may simply not be ABLE to answer questions which exceed the scope of the curriculum. Now, that isn't to say that adjuncts or teaching assistants always
can do so-- but the odds are certainly better, IME. This is still my number one reason for believing wholeheartedly that AP isn't college level.
