<p>He definitly shouldn’t be allowed to teach AP Euro again. You should SERIOUSLY consider talking to a district administrator about that… I thought OUR Euro teacher was ****, but at least he had a legitimate pass rate…</p>
<p>WOW AP Euro students(me included) were made fun of ALOT last year. I thought we were bad, although almost everyone in our class passed. I got a 4!!!</p>
<p>“I said that we had an AP World History textbook”
Well I didn’t see that in the OP. Anyways, that’s the district/school’s problem, not the teacher (unless it is expected at your school that the teacher buy all the textbooks).
You can’t pass an AP test based on tons of information and facts without a good, relevant textbook.</p>
<p>Some of the classes at my school have a 10% (or worse) pass rate on the AP test. All of the information needed was covered in the required reading (I know because I passed those tests just doing the required reading). Of course, the people that didn’t pass - you guessed it - didn’t do the required reading.
At least we had relevant textbooks.</p>
<p>@aldfig0: They had him pick out the book before the class started.</p>
<p>And I thought my euro teacher was bad… At least he had a 95% pass rate. This guy shouldn’t be allowed to teach euro anymore. Although I don’t understand how everyone failed… I feel like you could pass that exam based only on a very very basic knowledge of history and some good guesswork.</p>
<p>Was he picking from a list of books already chosen by the district (some don’t include all the books required, as they don’t want to waste money reviewing books/buying new ones) or could he get whatever book he wanted? This sounds really weird.</p>
<p>He definitely shouldn’t be allowed to teach the course again. Even if it was partially the students’ fault for not doing enough preparation outside of class (and from the sounds of it that wasn’t really the issue), he should not have let grade inflation go so out of control. Obviously people thought they were prepared…I’m sorry things turned out so badly 
For your sake and the sake of future AP Euro students, talk to someone like shrey96 suggested. That way the school district will realize that the students are concerned about their learning!</p>
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<p>That is not surprising. For students who can choose either AP Calculus or AP Statistics, the better at math students are expected to choose AP Calculus; AP Statistics gives worse at math students a chance to have an “AP math” course in their transcript.</p>
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<p>If the teacher chose that book, bad choice by the teacher. If the district would not let him choose proper AP European History books, bad for the district.</p>
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<p>If it were a true university level course (some APs have been criticized as not being really up to university level), is it reasonable to expect a high pass rate from high school sophomores (as opposed to high school seniors)? Still, 0% pass is worse than what one would expect.</p>
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<p>If the teacher was already known to be poor from other courses, why did you take his course instead of one of the other courses with one of the better teachers?</p>
<p>Bad teachers certainly exist, but can be hard to fire (e.g. tenure policy, shortage of teachers to replace even if you can fire one, etc.). So the bad teacher has to be put somewhere.</p>
<p>I would give the teacher another chance. The students need to take responsibility for their actions. I took the AP European History test and I wasn’t even in a class called AP European History. My teacher was amazing, but I still made sure to read the Princeton Review’s history review a few times from start to finish.</p>
<p>Also, let’s keep this in mind. How long do you have to study for the test? If you are really motivated, you can know the material well before the school year even starts just by reading 2 chapters of the Princeton Review a day.</p>
<p>“That is not surprising. For students who can choose either AP Calculus or AP Statistics, the better at math students are expected to choose AP Calculus; AP Statistics gives worse at math students a chance to have an “AP math” course in their transcript.”</p>
<p>Actually at my school, students take AP Calculus before they take AP Stats.</p>
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<p>However, some students may be only one year ahead, and have only one slot for a math course in senior year after completing precalculus in junior year. If they are choosing between AP Calculus and AP Statistics, it is likely that the better-at-math students will tend to choose AP Calculus over AP Statistics.</p>