I tend to a agree with Val.

I think that a large part of the problem is the mentality that EVERYONE can take AP classes which itself stems from the unpalatability of tracking these days.

Having to move at the pace of the slowest means that something has to give - either rigor or the amount of curriculum that gets covered (as we cannot keep kids in high school forever) and given those choices I would choose rigor as the one to keep.

It is basically a version of the old project management conundrum of optimizing the three classic constraints of Time, Cost and Quality. To get things done in the real World more of one automatically means less of the others.

Last edited by madeinuk; 03/10/14 04:19 AM.
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