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To: Dale Baker who wrote (104872)	2/24/2009 5:36:51 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542921

When I took AP English 30 years ago, it was all US and British literature, as I recall. Back in the Dark Ages when I was in high school, there was no such thing as AP. I have studied 7 languages in all in high school, college, and in Berlitz-type classes. They seemed all the same to me. Why some of them conveyed degree credit and others did not can be explained, best I can tell, only by the venue. 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. I'm all for HS classes in Spanish literature, though. If native English speakers have to slog through Silas Marner, then native Spanish speakers should have their La Celestina.