Just spotted this ur-Westchester moment in Jay Matthews' article, Why AP Matters:

In a March posting on an education blog, veteran AP American-history teacher Kathleen Donnison said she thought NEWSWEEK was doing education a disservice by recognizing schools that were working to coax B and C students into AP and IB. "It is one thing for a bright student to be absorbed for hours working on a favorite subject. It is quite another story when an 'average' student struggles until two o'clock in the morning to master the massive amount of material of a course in which he has little interest," wrote Donnison, who teaches at Mamaroneck High School in Westchester County, N.Y. "How much of a favor are we doing these youngsters?"

For any number of reasons, all of which I will eventually shape into coherent form, I am not down with ur-Westchester on this issue.





Irvington High School came in at 125 this year —






-- CatherineJohnson - 08 May 2006

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