<p>You are trying to use the exception to prove the rule. There are people that can wake up and ace any course with now work but most kids don’t have mastery of this subject. </p>
<p>There is a ton of material to be learned for AP World History and APUSH. Teachers should be giving a lot (by HS standards) of work. Unlike many of the other AP courses, these courses cover 2 semesters of college work so the course should move at about the same pace as a college course.</p>
<p>Find somebody taking a similar course in college and see how much work and how much reading they have every week. There simply are not enough class hours in the week for a teacher to teach everything in the course. Kids have to be reading A LOT outside of class to cover the material properly.</p>