Jerry said:
this will go nowhere. the kid will go back to school, have a stain on his record through no fault of his own, and the school gets to say oops, sorry.
I can't promise you that your prediction will be wrong, but the following militates against that result.
The school change in policy so quickly when challenged can indicate that they didn't engage in sufficient consultation before in forming the policy and implementing it, or they did consult sufficiently but proceeded irresponsibly anyway, and they knew they were wrong.
This could have been a mere fender bender, an overstep taken tentatively, announced and retracted before the harm was imposed. Instead, the school seems to have realised it was in a fender bender, then run to the car it hit to set it on fire. Some functionary thought it would be clever to use all of his very modest power to do irreparable harm.
Since there is money in that kind of malice, it may not just blow away.
Spats Mcgee said:
Given the change in the policy, I'd be willing to bet that any mark on the students' records will be wiped clean. If the school district wipes this from their records and makes arrangements for them to take those AP exams, then it at least has an argument that they haven't suffered any cognizable injury. No cognizable injury = no standing = lawsuit dies in its tracks.
Emphasis added. That would make the most sense if possible.
I don't know how this works now. My recollection is that I had to go to a local college to take this, as if AP testing wasn't run by the school in which the class is given, but by some other authority.
