SANTA MONICA, D.C., May 5 (UPI) -- Elite private high schools across the country are rejecting advanced placement courses to develop more customized and challenging curricula.
Crossroads School in Santa Monica, Calif., is the latest of several private secondary schools scrapping the national AP program they consider limited and boring in favor of their own college-level courses, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"Crossroads and its faculty prefer courses that prepare students to be reflective, analytical and ongoing learners," Headmaster Roger Weaver wrote in a letter to parents this week. "Classes geared to a specific, externally designed test do not best achieve this objective."
The 50-year-old AP program, designed to help high school students gain college credits before they matriculate, is offered by more than 14,000 U.S. high schools and has nearly become required for admission to the most selective universities.
