what I’ve seen a few schools and even districts doing is requiring all students to take AP courses, but they are choosing to teach the ones generally considered less rigorous.
This can be a bad decision for everybody!
Students who need a remedial or regular course are overwhelmed and students who wanted to take a Euro History instead of Human Geography, are sol.
It’s bad enough when a school does it but the push for APs seemed to coincide with magazine rankings of high schools using #'s of AP tests, NOT the scores to determine the top schools.