Texas parents help me out

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Wed, 27 May 2009 19:23:33 +0000

Thank you for the input:
Fireflyscout, I e-mailed CollegeBoard but I haven’t gotten a reply yet. I will call tomorrow. The following statement is excerpted from an e-mail written by a school board member to a constituent. Can anyone accept or refute its validity. Our school board meeting is tomorrow:
The Texas Education Agency, College Board, and Texas Higher Ed Coordinating Board do not recognize nor recommend that we label classes Pre-AP or give weighted credit for those classes.
I am also attaching our school board rep’s explanation for the decision:
“…there is a large inconsistency in the way that Pre-AP is taught. Basically, there is no standardized curriculum for Pre-AP. In fact, there is NO CURRICULUM for Pre-AP; it is the sole discretion of each Pre-AP teacher so we’re finding it to be highly inconsistent from campus to campus and even class to class. Based on the above information… the Board voted on April 23rd to revise the ranking scale for grades. The new scale weights AP and Dual Credit since they both require College level work. However, it no longer provides weighted points toward a student’s GPA for Pre-AP.”
This is so frustrating and so difficult to comprehend that at this point it seems that all but one board member supports this decision. By the way inconsistent teaching in our district is not limited to preAP’s.