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 # <A HREF="http://idiom.com/~wcs"> # You can get PGP software outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto