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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: thundley4 on February 24, 2009, 06:00:10 PM

Title: California School Spends $10G a Year to Teach AP Spanish to Kids Who Speak Spani
Post by: thundley4 on February 24, 2009, 06:00:10 PM

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A middle school in Southern California is spending $10,000 a year to teach Advanced Placement Spanish to 35 of its 650 students -- and all but one of them are already fluent in Spanish.

Thirty-four of the kids in the AP class are from Mexico or are the children of Mexican immigrants. They all grew up speaking Spanish at home.

The program -- the only one of its kind in California -- has outraged some critics who say they are concerned that the AP course wastes public resources – including taxpayer dollars – to teach native Spanish speakers how to speak their native language in an American public school.

“In public schools, Spanish speakers should put their focus on making sure that they are fluent in English and equipped to speak the kind of English that will open the doors of opportunity to them in this country,” says K.C. McAlpin, executive director of Pro English, a non-profit organization promoting English as the official language of the United States.

“I think this school is kind of playing games with educational resources, that you know, I think any taxpayers, especially local taxpayers, would object to,” McAlpin told FOXnews.com.
But administrators at Lemon Grove Middle School, located eight miles outside San Diego, are enthusiastic about the program, which they say will help prepare the 6th- through 8th-graders for college.


“Our goal is basically to provide kids with an opportunity to excel and to feel really satisfied about doing the higher level work,” Lemon Grove School District Superintendent Ernie Anastos told FOXNews.com.

Link (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,499445,00.html)

It's not about giving them an education, it's about their feelings.  :whatever:  No wonder Califruitopia is so screwed up.

Title: Re: California School Spends $10G a Year to Teach AP Spanish to Kids Who Speak Spani
Post by: Tess on February 24, 2009, 07:10:04 PM

I worked for the second largest school district in California.  It was an inner-city school district and 70% of the student population was from south of the boarder.  This does NOT come as any surprise for me.  In all of our high schools there was an AP Spanish class which was chalk full of such students.

 :banghead:

Title: Re: California School Spends $10G a Year to Teach AP Spanish to Kids Who Speak Spani
Post by: djones520 on February 25, 2009, 11:47:45 AM

So no one who speaks English as a first language can take AP English?

Title: Re: California School Spends $10G a Year to Teach AP Spanish to Kids Who Speak Spani
Post by: Chris_ on February 25, 2009, 11:51:47 AM

Quote from: djones520 on February 25, 2009, 11:47:45 AM

So no one who speaks English as a first language can take AP English?

Would seem kind of stupid if the purpose of the class is English as a second language.