Texas parents help me out

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Sun, 24 May 2009 22:51:11 +0000

To answer both of you the pre-Ap program has not been dropped they are just dropping the weight. The superintendant has been straight forward in saying that he hoped that over the years the program would die. He expects that kids won’t take the classes because of rank issues. Actually I sat in on meeting where the rank issue was discussed with relation to college admission and the superindentant’s reply was that it didn’t matter where kids went to school. At that point it seemed like we were from different planets and discussion just wasn’t possible. The vast majority of students from the HS even the top students, go the the state university but there are a few exceptions though. There is a GT program at the HS in name only. I expect that not dropping the pre-AP’s altogether is the district way of meeting the GT requirement. Aside from pre-AP, AP. D/C and independent study there really isn’t a GT program. I am told that teachers know who the GT kids are but from what I have seen this means nothing. This measure went to the school board for a vote with none of the community knowing this would happen and with no community input it passed along with a requirement for students to take and pay for a portion of AP tests or loose the weight awarded for the class. There were other components to this as well but the biggest worry comes from the pre-AP issue. Several parents will go to the next meet to see if a change can be made.