A reader sends me an email about a post a couple days ago regarding low high school achievement. I have no direct knowledge of how accurate this is, although I know this person and trust this person's judgment.
I'm sure that Aberdeen Central isn't the exception by any means. However, I went to [another South Dakota high school] for three years and Aberdeen Central for one year and I know how bad Central's system is. In AP English, my senior year at ACHS, we were instructed to read books I had read in my freshman Honors English course in [my other high school]. The college prep courses are an absolute joke. My CP economics course consisted of basic consumer economics. In other words, we were taught how to grocery shop. The majority of teachers are coaches of some sort and are never around in the mornings or after school. The library is filled with 200 page pop culture fiction books that are at best, meant for 8th graders. Grade inflation is an unmonitored plague that taints every transcript. Students are not encouraged to take the most challenging courses (of which there are few) but they are certainly encouraged to take time off of school to attend all sports games. And why not? The teachers are absent from class and at the games. ACHS revolves around sports not academia.
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