California School Spends $10G a Year to Teach AP Spanish to Kids Who Speak Spanish

www.foxnews.com ^ | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 | By Nora Zimmett

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

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.

[proxy_user]

Well, they’ll go for the double - and more - negatives:

“He never yet no villainy ne said
In all his life, unto no manner man.....

[NonValueAdded]

Well, then why does every high school kid in America take 4 years of English?

[Jeff Chandler]

$260,000 a year NOT COUNTING the property taxes for school bonds.

[Jeff Chandler]

Well, then why does every high school kid in America take 4 years of English?

To keep Commie fag writers employed.

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

what? who said 10 trillion?

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

Very interesting!

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

Because this is America and we speak English!

[BBell]

Memories from my youth

Cheech and Chong: Mexican American Song

[LiberConservative]

Sorry. You said 10 billion.
1K = 1 thousand.
1M = 1 million.
1G = 1 billion.
There is some confusion between computers and money, but if you want to say "$10,000" it's probably best to spell it out as "10 Grand". To a computer geek like me 10G = 10 billion.

[Kenny Bunk]

I guess we should also put an end to AP english
since the majority of students already speak English?

The Troll has a point.

[Mr. Blond]

When my high school in Canada started offering Spanish, the South/Central American immigrant kids took it thinking they’d have an easy class. They did poorly, and always argued with the teacher. We of course were being taught Castillian, not Mexican.

[Porterville]

Lord, I can only imagine how mad you would be if AP Farsi was being taught to 35 Iranian immigrant children... I bet your head would explode... the irony.

[Porterville]

“Because this is America and we speak English!”

Are dir takin’ dir jibs too!!! Learn a second language and refine your English.

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

That was the article headline, I just copied and pasted it.

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

I took 3 years of Spanish is publik skool. Does that count? I can’t remember any of it but oh well. When my children are in jr high , I will be learning Spanish with them. We will be using Rosetta Stone. I previewed it last year and it was incredible. My English is constanly being refined as I teach it on a daily basis. Maybe you should refine your manners.

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

Obviously your beef is with foxnews.com. Another headline today “Child Pornographer Must Pay $200G to Woman Photographed as Molested Child”.

[WOBBLY BOB]

I actually took Swedish in HS. (Minnesota)

I can still say “I have a red pen in the lake”.

[LiberConservative]

So much for literacy in the MSM.