Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-26601629-20150715230733/@comment-9630977-20150728024612

Grahamburglar wrote: T Angelus Ballack wrote: Blackomet wrote: Well, I think she should cut some slack, and yeah don't be so hard on the students. I get this vibe from her. She's got some ulterior motice perhaps!? Well aren't AP classes in America advanced classes, well professors tend to be meaner in those situations, but it was more like she was intimidating students who she thought were wasting their time, and trying to assert the remaining students not to slack off, because let's face it, how many teenagers actually crack open the spine of a book of their own volition Yes, AP stands for "Advanced Placement" and they're supposed to be college level courses taught in high school. At my high school, you could even earn early college credits for taking them.

So, yes, you DO need to be hard on your students. Like, that's the entire point of an AP class. And AP classes were known, at my high school, for being absolute hell for the first three weeks so that the teachers could weed out everyone who didn't belong in the class, and if you stuck it out through those three weeks the teacher would bend over backwards to help you succeed with the class's college level workload.

Every time she's seemed like a hard ass, she's been blatantly pushing people to drop out of the class so I'm REALLY certain that's what she's doing here. If anybody needs to cut her some slack, it's all the viewers who think she's evil. She's doing her job. This was true at my school too (I'm from the UK.) We don't have AP classes but we have A-Levels which I think is a similar thing. My first A-Level chemistry class for example started with about 30 students, by the end of the week it was about 15, by the beginning of the second year it was 6.

One of my best friends wanted to do this class... He lasted for the first hour of a 2 hour lesson. A similar thing happened with my Maths and Biology classes too.