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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (104957)2/25/2009 4:32:22 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 542750
 
All I was talking about was AP classes. I figured anyone talking back to me would be pretty much talking about that.

My initial response to you constrained my comments. I said "My impression is that it's not an issue of Spanish speakers studying Spanish but fluent Spanish speakers taking AP Spanish." So, I was "pretty much talking about" the merits of making Spanish 5 an AP class.

So of course I figured you knew that a 5th year of high school classes would, essentially, take you in to college territory.

And I explained why I didn't think Spanish 5 or English 5 was a course that warranted college credit. "Gaining proficiency in a language is the same wherever it's taught, seems to me. And literature classes are little more than book clubs, which don't convey any credit at all. So I can't get my head around AP Spanish or English."

You want college level Enlish taught in 4th year English?

I denied the legitimacy of anything calling itself "college level English."

No doubt it's all very clear to you, but I don't think that clarity has been communicated.

When you didn't counter my points but shifted into educating me on the wonders of AP classes, perhaps I should have realized that you hadn't actively read all of my comments.
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