<p>So...the district is quite upset with the AP Euro scores. No one passed. 87 took the test, there were 86 1's and a 2. </p>
<p>I'm not making that up ^, the Board put those scores out. However, they're going to let him teach it again! <em>facepalm</em></p>
<p>Has he taught the class before? Is that usually what scores students get? It’s a history class, it shouldn’t have been hard for students to get at least a 3 by merely looking over the textbook/a prepbook.</p>
<p>Hahaha that is funny how they are letting him teach it again.</p>
<p>No…this was the first year AP Euro was taught in my district.</p>
<p>Problem might be that 80% of kids never read the textbook? At least in my class</p>
<p>^ Yah, that’s often the case. My school’s grades are highly inflated. The tests In AP classes are a joke, but the teachers do assign the appropriate readings. When AP time comes, everyone that followed the assignments should have theoretically read the entire text book. You can only imagine the surprises in people’s faces when people who got straight A’s fail the AP test lulz.</p>
<p>We didn’t even go over the Cold War until AFTER the AP Exam.</p>
<p>Also, we had an AP World book.</p>
<p>nobody had the initiative to self study it? lol</p>
<p>@Mathela: Self-Studying is banned in my district.</p>
<p>wow . . . . that’s terrible. I think that beats my US History teacher who thought Andrew Jackson and Stonewall Jackson were the same person. At least she actually got a 37% pass rate (yes, people self-studied).</p>
<p>Would I let them teach again, probably (there’s a lot of politics involved that would most likely make it impossible to get rid of him. That’s the great American educational system). Would I let him teach AP again? HELL NO!</p>
<p>That’s not what mathela meant. It’s not self-studying in that sense, but in the sense that a student is working outside of class and not blindly expecting that the teacher will adequately prepare them for the exam. This turnout of scores is not entirely the teacher’s fault. It’s just that none of these students took the initiative to study a review book and take practice tests outside of class. I took Euro as a sophomore, and my teacher didn’t prepare us at all - the class was hell too. It was essentially self-study for me because I was so horrible at history that I couldn’t absorb any instance of useful information he gave us. But, I still got through it and got a 4.</p>
<p>Yeah, I had a review book, and I still got a 1. The girl who got the 2 had a better review book, but a year worth of material really can’t be covered in three chapters.</p>
<p>My goodness…that’s terrible, lol. Everyone in my grade that took it last year got 2s and 3s (although only 6 of us took it, so).
My APUSH teacher this year barely got to the 1950s. It was ridiculous. I self studied, pretty much. Haven’t gotten my scores back yet, though…</p>
<p>I got a 2 in Euro…not what I expected…pretty sad eh?</p>
<p>The teacher should be fired or not allowed to teach AP. I could easily get some people to pass even without euro knowledge. When I took AP Euro I learned nothing in class and just learned by reading and still got a 5. Just assign reading and use the book’s test bank questions. If people don’t read, just threaten them with bad grades.</p>
<p>I would. Teachers should never be rated based on the test scores of their students, this causes dangerous things (such as the recent cheating scandal in Atlanta).</p>
<p>The students clearly didn’t bother to read the textbook (NOT glancing at the words, but reading carefully and rereading difficult passages).</p>
<p>I know in my AP Psychology class I would get As on tests while some students barely managed to get 50% right. We both paid attention in class; the difference is, I actually read the textbook (and managed to get a 5 on the test).</p>
<p>I didn’t read the textbook during AP Chemistry and I got a 2 (mostly relying on chemistry knowledge from Honors Chem the year before).</p>
<p>AP history classes are not similar to something like math. There is no way you can get the information you need to pass the AP exam by listening to what the teacher says in class.</p>
<p>100% of the class failed. Not a single person passed.</p>
<p>To me, those are horrid statistics and really should indicate that something is wrong with his teaching. This teacher needs to be removed from his position and should go back to teaching school or find another job. It is explicitly demonstrated that he can’t teach European History successfully and that his students aren’t being taught as they should. He’s robbing them of their education and hogging up a salary.</p>
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<p>Mathela was clearly referring to just studying for the test outside of class, not taking the test w/o the class. Unless studying by oneself is banned, in which case, the score distribution would make a lot of sense. :p</p>
<p>Is there any more context? 100% failure looks bad no matter what, but the context can make it not as bad or worse than bad.</p>
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<li><p>Are other AP tests commonly taken at the school (particularly the other history tests)? How well do students do on the other tests?</p></li>
<li><p>At what grade level is AP European History typically taken? Is it different from other AP history courses?</p></li>
<li><p>How well regarded is this teacher in non-AP history courses?</p></li>
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<p>@aldfig0: I said that we had an AP World History textbook.</p>
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<li><p>Are other AP tests commonly taken at the school (particularly the other history tests)? How well do students do on the other tests?
-Well, it’s weird. We have more people pass AP Calc than AP Stats.
We offer AP Euro, APUSH, AP Lang, AP Bio, AP Lit, AP US Gov, AP Calc AB, and AP Stats. All of the other teachers are wonderful except for AP Stats. </p></li>
<li><p>At what grade level is AP European History typically taken? Is it different from other AP history courses? Out of the 87: 84 sophomores, 1 Junior (me), and 2 Seniors. This was the first year it was offered.</p></li>
<li><p>How well regarded is this teacher in non-AP history courses? Last year there were three World Civ teachers (World Civ is sophomore History, now unless you take AP Euro). He was the joke one. The one I had was the AP Gov teacher, and the other one was the APUSH teacher. They were wonderful.</p></li>
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