As a teacher, I always recommend kids take as many AP classes as possible because at least there are higher standards and stricter adherence to the curriculum compared to Honors or Regular classes. It doesn’t guarantee a great teacher (God knows how many lame AP teachers there are out there), but at least your course material and the preparation for the AP test will expose you to better content material.

Personally and professionally, I hate standardized tests, even the APs, but out of all the different tests, I think APs do the best job of raising the bar for high school students and preparing them for college.

Of course, the better alternative is that students engage in the production of authentic creations such as studying and reporting on the state of their local community environment, creating a documentaries of local histories, or writing a novel that expresses their unique social experiences. Instead we have them creating false products, empty grades and sterile test scores that make no impact on the world whatsoever.

Needless to say, there were a lot of Asians at my high school…