Students in AP classes are expected to do more work than regular students, but why is it that some regular teachers who also teach AP classes can’t seem to lighten the workload for their regular students?
“It’s annoying because you take a regular class so you don’t have to do the work of an AP class but there’s no balance between the two,” said senior Michelle Wahab.
Just because some students take regular courses doesn’t mean that they are slacking off. In many cases, students take them in addition to multiple AP classes. The problem is, some AP teachers who teach regular classes give their regular students the same amount of work as their AP students, even though AP students should have a completely different course load.
“AP students have less graded homework but more reading and they’re more responsible for knowing the material without guidance,” said AP World History teacher, Elisa Steele.
This distinguished difference in the course load should be apparent but somehow there are some teachers who can’t seem to make this difference.
Also, the teachers don’t go over notes thoroughly during class. They expect their regular students to make connections between topics that are unrealistic for a regular class.
“It feels like they expect us to teach ourselves everything like they do in an AP class,” said sophomore Anna Pope.
It seems that the standard has been raised for students since AP courses have been offered. It used to be that the really heavy work-load was left to Honors courses. Now it seems some regular courses at Langley amount to be too similar to courses students take in college.