AP classes are excellent, and excellent students take them. The 101 courses in college are basically remedial courses for the students who are not excellent. I

AP classes are excellent, and excellent students take them. The 101 courses in college are basically remedial courses for the students who are not excellent. I think this points to problems earlier in education: excellent students are always going to excel, but the rest of the students now accepted into college (and student debt) are not well prepared by the education they received in high school. This started before the pandemic. The twentieth century began with children learning Latin and Greek in high school and ended with adults learning remedial English in college.