The CollegeBoard, which manages APcourses in high school, came out with a memo of principles stating if teachers do not teach required topics, the school where they teach could lose its Advanced Placement designation
The struggle teachers have found themselves in over the course of the pandemic is well-documented as they have been the center of a COVID-19 tug-of-war over regulations in schools, but it is a new College Board regulation that has them in a similar position once more.
“Teachers are under attack for doing their job right now,” said Scott Frank, an AP psychology and IB History of the Americas teacher in Brownsville, Texas. “What we’re hearing is that people are following the College Board and they’re going to teach AP with fidelity,” added Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers union in the United States.
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