From stewarts@ix.netcom.com Wed Dec 17 23:17:14 2003 From: Bill Stewart To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: Public Schools [NOISE] Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 23:17:14 +0000 Message-ID: <199609282255.PAA05134@dfw-ix3.ix.netcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2118146848306896919==" --===============2118146848306896919== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit attila: >= .> a very unusual situation --but I live in rural southern >= .> utah where the regional middle school of 1200 can support 4 >= .> bands, the top 2 being very impressive, and provide full AP >= .> classes, and ACT Tim: >= .Wow! Utah is teaching AP? Is Jim Bell being brought in as a >= .Special Lecturer? attilla > come on, Tim... you are not that old. AP has three meanings > (at least): > 1. Associated Press (news gathering) > 2. Advanced Placement (as in college credit for HS classes) > 3. not widely known: Jim Bell's Assassination Political Hey, if a high school can teach kids to read the Associated Press critically and think about what it's saying and means, they're doing a really fine job! For that matter, if they can teach kids to just read the news at all, they're accomplishing something. I was surprised by the idea of teaching Advanced Placement classes in a middle school - in the reasonably high-quality public school I went to, most of the AP classes were taken by 12th graders and a few by 11th-graders, though this was partly because that's when we started getting slack in our schedules after taking the regular courses. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # # You can get PGP software outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto --===============2118146848306896919==--