Lemon Grove Middle School located near San Diego California is shelling out ten thousand dollars per year to teach thirty five students Advanced Placement Spanish.
This sounds a bit frivolous considering the current economic situation in our country and especially in California. That is quite a bit of money for middle school but what makes it more ridiculous is that thirty four of the thirty five students is already fluent in Spanish. Yes. Fluent. Lemon Grove Middle School is taking the stance that this enhances the students natural assets and increases these students feelings of accomplishments and self worth.
Advanced Placement classes carry more weight, enough weight that can make a grade of B worth as much as an A. This can be valuable when trying to get the attention of college admissions offices .
This can also pad the GPA's of these students which in turn makes Lemon Grove Middle School appear to be perhaps something that it is not.
Spending tax payer dollars to teach students something they already know does not make them smarter or enhance their self esteem. There is a huge difference between working for grades and having them handed to you. If those kids don't know the difference now, they will. When the classes stop being handed to them on a silver platter and they have to actually work for the weighted grades of Advance Placement classes then what they will have learned is not at all what Lemon Grove intended to teach them.
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