If you were in charge, would you let him teach AP Euro again?

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@DavidTheNerd

We have more people pass AP Calc than AP Stats.

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<p>That is not surprising. For students who can choose either AP Calculus or AP Statistics, the better at math students are expected to choose AP Calculus; AP Statistics gives worse at math students a chance to have an “AP math” course in their transcript.</p>

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@DavidTheNerd

I said that we had an AP World History textbook.

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<p>If the teacher chose that book, bad choice by the teacher. If the district would not let him choose proper AP European History books, bad for the district.</p>

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@DavidTheNerd

Out of the 87: 84 sophomores, 1 Junior (me), and 2 Seniors. This was the first year it was offered.

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<p>If it were a true university level course (some APs have been criticized as not being really up to university level), is it reasonable to expect a high pass rate from high school sophomores (as opposed to high school seniors)? Still, 0% pass is worse than what one would expect.</p>

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@DavidTheNerd

Last year there were three World Civ teachers (World Civ is sophomore History, now unless you take AP Euro). He was the joke one. The one I had was the AP Gov teacher, and the other one was the APUSH teacher. They were wonderful.

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<p>If the teacher was already known to be poor from other courses, why did you take his course instead of one of the other courses with one of the better teachers?</p>

<p>Bad teachers certainly exist, but can be hard to fire (e.g. tenure policy, shortage of teachers to replace even if you can fire one, etc.). So the bad teacher has to be put somewhere.</p>