<p>^ Does your school do it for the money? I know my school does. They really need to revamp the FL education system. It's really corrupt here and if you want to learn you have to do it yourself. The principal and assistant principal of curriculum have "persuaded" some of the best teachers at my school to leave because they were causing too much trouble fighting on students' behalfs.</p>
<p>Nope, central Florida.</p>
<p>I guess I wouldn't call my school crappy, but it doesn't fulfill the potential of its students. There are many, many students qualified to take AP classes, and they have the ambition to do so. But the school doesn't offer any, since my school is too small. There would be only five to ten students in each AP course, so it wouldn't really pay to have them. Additionally, scheduling them would be a nightmare. So we have really good students (with 30+ ACT scores) who take all regular college prep courses.</p>
<p>Yeah, our school does it for the money. But one of our teachers said that is very stupid because the school only gets money for how many people pass the test, not how many people take it. Our school is real short on money. It's so short that it's making seniors test for gifted just to get the money, which is real useless if you're in gifted your senior year. Also, to keep kids in gifted our school has this dumb "gifted" class that is supposed to help you with college. They did this so that if people take all AP classes, they still can have one gifted class so the school can get the extra money.</p>
<p>I agree about the system needing to be changed. The only thing the school can think about is FCAT. In my AP Biology class, before I transferred to AP Chemistry, we spent a week going over FCAT science crap because the whole school was having an interim assessment for FCAT science.</p>