<p>I go to a public school in Southern California. It is a typical school in LAUSD; in other words, its a mediocre school with low expectations.</p>
<p>We had AP exams go through all this week. Unfortunately, we had a problem with our administration and the test proctors throughout the exam. The proctor was on the phone for 5 minutes during the AP literature exam yesterday. She also had her phone ring several times throughout the exam, and she chose not to turn it off so every 15 minutes we heard a phone ringing while we were doing our essays. I heard that when a phone rings, all the tests in that room become invalidated. I'm very concerned because it was an extremely distracting environment already (think of having fire alarms go off almost daily this week, having sports events announcements go off, having construction right next door, having kids scream in the middle of the hallways, and a radio station blaring its music for 30 minutes while you're trying to do your third essay), and I'm worried my AP score will be affected as a result. My principal believes that "there needs to be a balance between academics and school spirit", so they will not listen to parents or teachers complain. What should I do? There is another week of AP exams, and while I'm done taking them, I feel so terrible about everyone else who has to deal with another week of this. Thank you!</p>
<p>The principal said that for public images, you have no way to really file a report like this. Even though the effect may be serious, I doubt anyone would bother looking into a report about phone ringings.</p>
<p>If you want to start a big thing about it, you can. But the most it will do (I’m guessing) is get your school in trouble, your principal mad at you, and your entire school may have to retake the exams. Based on the fact that my friend’s school had to retake exams when a complaint about the environment was made. </p>
<p>It’s not like the College Board will raise all of your grades or anything.</p>
<p>He said he has no attachment to the school. He hates the people in the school, the students are probably jackasses or rich kids getting into college by legacy or other jocks. The principal probably only cares about his job (I mean who seriously says “there needs to be a balance between academics and school spirit”, obviously for public image) and he is probably graduating. So yeah **** the school who made your life a hell for the past years, do it.</p>
<p>The students just are jerks, not rich or legacy kids (the colleges around here don’t do that sort of thing), but simply snobs and just not-nice people. However, I wouldn’t want to have all their hard work go to waste either. It would make me feel horrible to know I wasted almost 300 kids’ hard work. But I dunno…it isn’t just me who feels that the environment was unfair. Everyone in my school who has taken an AP exam feels like this.</p>
<p>But the real question is-- do you think you would do that much better if you took the test again at a later date (which would probably involve a lot of review of the information) in the proper environment?</p>
<p>If so, then yeah, get some of your friends who feel the same way and go for it. But if you’re not willing to go through all of the stress and studying again, then it’s probably not worth it.</p>
<p>I probably would have done so much better if there wasn’t a huge amount of crazy distractions. However, I don’t know if everyone would feel the same way I did. Additionally, I’m a senior; if I retook an exam it would probably be in the summer. I don’t know if my AP score would even count for anything at my school if I retook it.</p>
<p>Then contact the college you plan to go to about course selections and credit?
And this makes me sound like a dick, but it doesn’t matter how other people feel. You have to look out for yourself. Make the right decision for you.</p>
<p>I have to look out for myself, I know. However, I also have to consider my siblings who also took AP exams. I really have to think/get more opinions about this I guess.</p>
What should I do? Should I even try?</p>