A North Fulton high school honors student discusses why the last two weeks of school are often spent watching movies. He cites testing schedules as the culprit, especially in Advanced Placement classes.
“Despite the fact that their courses finish all testing in early May, AP teachers are still perplexingly required to give assessments during the last week of school. This last week is somewhat ironically termed ‘final exam week,’ even when most juniors and seniors have already taken their actual final exams before the AP tests. Usually, these final week tests come in the form of projects, or simple tests, to fulfill this pointless requirement,” writes Andrew Liang.
“With nothing new on their curriculums to cover for two weeks, many teachers turn to showing movies related to their subjects. As nearly all of my classes are AP courses, I will be watching plenty of movies until the school year ends. So will many of my sophomore and junior classmates, and nearly all of my senior ones,” he says.
To read how Andrew proposes to change this, go to the AJC Get Schooled blog.
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