Where do you read about 12 winners, but only one is mentioned by name? Doesn’t it look … unusual?
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LA Times is not so local 
Plus, news were picked up by the national media. Even the President put his 2 cents.
If my kid would be one of the 12 winners - I would be outraged if she is not mentioned by name.
Outraged. yep. I suspect you would be. And you still don’t see what this says *about you.
So you think the. LA Times should have contacted families in any number of other countries in the writing of a human interest fluff piece? And you think people from other states or countries should be bothered when their kids aren’t mentioned in a human interest fluff piece in the LA Times? I don’t personally care what is ever in the. LA Times. You would be outraged about this? Wow. I sincerely hope that means you are doing so well that you would have nothing else to be upset or outraged about.
First, we know absolutely nothing about the other 11 kids. Why are you assuming anything about their identity? How do you know they weren’t featured in local news stories in their own home towns? However, is it beyond your frame of reference to understand that certain achievements are harder for some than for others and therefore more newsworthy?
NO!! It happens every single day in every single newspaper in the world!! The story was NOT about perfect AP Calc scores, it was about a specific school, class, and teacher and a shout out was given to an exceptional student in that context.
Was 2015 a bad year for wine in California?
On Jan. 31st this previous article was published because the district announced his score:
In it:
(Sounds like a great kid to want his teacher to be recognized as well!)
So I guess on Feb 3rd the article in the OP was published to recognize the teacher’s accomplishments.
If the other 10 students had school districts or otherwise make releases I’m sure they would get attention as well by their local media.
And one did…here’s a kid in Northern CA who got a perfect score.
Again, College board said there were only 6 perfect scores in 2015, not 12. Maybe the reporter was just making stuff up?
californiaa, you don’t seem to know anything about reporting news or feature stories either. The reporter doesn’t have any obligation to seek out more fact for YOU, but you can choose not to read any stories written by that reporter if you don’t think they are good enough. Find another reporter that reports the story you want to read about 6 or 12 perfect scorers on the AP exam. This story was about a math teacher, with a little bit about one of his success stories.
Years ago a child I was a nanny to was awarded NMF, along with 11 others from his fairly small school (about 100 in the graduating class). It was unique, it was a story the newspaper thought was interesting and that its readers would find interesting. Were they the only NMFs that year? Of course not; they weren’t even the only ones from this city. Five of them went to Yale, also unusual as it was such a small school and these 5 had been together since K. (CC could go on for days about 5 kids with very similar backgrounds from the same country day school and then the same private high school, many similar EC’s all got into Yale in the same year) Unique, interesting to the readers of that community. A feature article on the features page. I guess you wouldn’t be interested because what about all the other NMF? What about all the other kids who were admitted to Yale that year? Totally unfair to them because they are special too.
Of course they make a bigger deal about the Nobel winner who came from a poor background! Do you know who won the prize for physics the same year as Malala Yousafzai won her Peace Prize? Do you care? Was that physicist invited to the White House? Should every article about the Peace prize winner be required to include all the other winners? The prior winners?
@californiaa, The article is about the teacher. There is only one paragraph about the perfect scoring student. The article is not about celebrating a prodigy. It’s about recognizing a local teacher of exceptional commitment who has guided and inspired many students to work hard and achieve highly despite some less than ideal backgrounds.
If this disturbs you, perhaps you should contact the White House and ask them why they aren’t honoring the other 11?
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As an LAUSD parent, all I can say is I’m super proud of Cedrick and in awe of Mr. Yom. LAUSD-bashing is a popular pastime in this city where many wealthier families avoid its schools like the plague. The fact that there are teachers and students in this district who can achieve so much is worthy of recognition. This does not detract from the accomplishment of the other 11 students should they wish to come forward and be similarly recognized.
According to this tweet: https://twitter.com/ap_trevor/status/609446190757900288
and here: https://twitter.com/ap_trevor/status/609459412797911040
it says:
So where did the 12 (or even 6) number come from? Looks like 3 (or maybe 4) to me!
@twoinanddone where did you get your 6 number?
ETA: Did not know the tweets would actually show up, so please excuse the redundancy of my quotes. However, I’ll leave them in case the tweets themselves don’t show up for some.
http://www.9news.com/story/news/2016/02/03/lakewood-student-jack-doherty-ap-exam/79781090/
Quite a few news stories on perfect scores.
The first two say that the College Board says there are 322 perfect scores across all of the exams this year. 14 of the perfect scores on computer science were from the Silicon Valley.
@twoinanddone - I think I found where the 6 came from…In the previous year (2014 results) there were 1 for AP Calc AB and 5 AP Calc BC.
http://www.totalregistration.net/AP-Exam-Registration-Service/2015-AP-Exam-Score-Distributions.php
I just googled AP test results and this is what came up for 2015. It doesn’t really matter if it is 6 or 12 or 112. This newspaper article was about the teacher.
Some schools let any student who wants to sign up for an AP class to do it, whether they have the proper foundation classes or not. Many of those students do not pass the exams. Other schools require a teacher recommendation or getting in A in a lower level class to be in AP. Usually the results at those schools are higher. My kids went to the kind of school where anyone could take an AP and they were required to take the AP exam if they took the class, so there were plenty of 1’s and 2’s. Not that many took AP Calc who weren’t prepared, so the scores were higher. Same with chemistry and biology and statistics.
This story about another perfect scorer shows the letter from CB listing the number as 12.
http://www.abc10.com/story/news/local/davis/2016/02/02/davis-student-one-few-get-pefect-ap-exam-score/79706132/
editing to add: Whether it’s 6, 12, or 60 this is an accomplishment of which this student and his teacher should be proud.
God almighty, californiaa. You are being deliberately clueless here. The story isn’t about AP Calculus perfection. It’s about a particular teacher in a disadvantaged school and the results he got. Normal people get this fully and understand why a local paper isn’t publishing the name of the kid halfway across the country who got a perfect score because it is a local interest story. B
I get that you’re all STEM uber alles but there are all different kinds of intelligence. if this were an AP for reading comprehension you’d get a 1. Maybe you can study harder next time.
Yes, that was what I did too. And that is where I got 3 for Calc AB and 1 for Calc BC (since they are quoting someone else I just included the original source as a link instead of them). And that’s why I wondered where you got 6. But then I noticed that 2014 had a total of 6 between the two. I was wondering if you had some other source.
I agree that it doesn’t matter if it’s " 6 or 12 or 112 " as not only is that particular story about the teacher, but either way the accomplishment is still quite a feat. However it was you who pointed it out (“Again, College board said there were only 6 perfect scores in 2015, not 12. Maybe the reporter was just making stuff up?”), so I was curious enough to look it up and wanted to clarify for people (though your 6 made it even more confusing to me!).
While I totally disagree with @californiaaa interpretation of this story as some sort of politically correct anti-Asian conspiracy, many posters here are not understanding that the linked story is the second wave in this story. The original story was last week and was the perfect AP score. The follow up story was about the teacher. I think @californiaaa is reacting to the initial story that singled out one kid over 3, 6, 12 or however many kids.
I still don’t have a problem with the original story and still think anyone who sees this as some politically correct attempt to keep Asians down needs to address the chip on their own shoulder along with their own prejudice that 1) the other kids with perfect scores MUST be Asians and 2) someone who is half Asian and has a Hispanic sounding last name is not Asian enough.
The letter from CB (link in post #59) references an attachment on recommendations for contacting local media. I would imagine that’s how the names of most students are released.
This was a local story. Just like the “Local athlete headed for the Junior Olympics” or “Local kid win science fair” stories don’t include the names of every other kid in the world, or even in the state to do so, this story focussed on the story of one high achieving kid.