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In reply to the discussion: All the crazy MAGA QANON hate points to a failure of our public education [View all]Genki Hikari
(1,766 posts)I've been in college with them recently. Given how much time we had to spend reviewing things they were supposed to have learned already (especially how recently they learned it compared to an old fogy like me), plenty of them also learned stuff long enough to pass their classes, then dump most of it when they no longer needed it.
None of the public schools I attended in the 70s had AP classes. I guess it was too expensive for them, given that we were in the boonies of the south. After learning of its existence, though, I expected the people who took AP to be intellectual powerhouses. I was shocked at how many of them knew so little. About anything. Don't even get me started on what their papers looked like. Yeah, they were better than the norm, overall, but not so much better that it made AP look like all that much of an advance in education.
Kids (and people in general) who want to learn...learn. AP or not. I hated school. Loved learning, which is why I excelled at college. Without AP behind me.