Burroughs offers many Advanced Placement courses as well as many other high-level courses throughout our curriculum. We offer AP courses in languages, math and science but do not offer AP courses in English or history. Our reasoning is clear cut. The AP curriculum, by design, is exceedingly structured and test-driven. That works perfectly well for our math department where our goals for calculus parallel those of the AP curriculum. But in the case of English, for example, the goals of the AP course are too prescriptive for our teachers who emphasize classroom discussion and challenging writing assignments. It is important to note that a student does not need to be enrolled in an AP course to take an AP test. Many of our students do just that and score as well, or better, than students who have had the prescribed curriculum.