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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The curriculum is cumulative. In order for it to adapt, kids would have to learn more advanced subjects earlier than they have in years past. There are lots of kids doing this in Advanced Placement classes, but most kids are not ready to progress that quickly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

we could also just allow kids to go to college for free instead of killing them with interest rates :p

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

No argument here!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And many colleges adapted to AP classes by...not accepting them

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That wasn't my experience as a millennial

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did you attend every college?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where are they not accepting CLEP tests?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

First of all, CLEP and AP are not the same thing.

Second, there's plenty of colleges that were very selective of which ones they accepted. Some went and mixed up their core classes just to make it so nothing matched. I went to one