Some AP Exams to End

These days, a ton of high school students are taking Advanced Placement classes in order to do well on the exams. According to The New York Times, students took more than 2.6 million exams in 37 subjects last year. If they get a good score, students can receive college credit.

AP United States history and English literature programs are the most popular among high school students, however, very few participate in the AP Italian, French literature, Latin literature, and computer science AB exams. Since it takes a lot of money to keep an AP program running, these four subjects will be dropped.

AP Italian is not even available in Buffalo Grove High School, but if it was I’m sure many students would have taken it. With the economic situation that we’re in right now, though, not enough money was funded to keep it going. It’s too bad because AP Italian exams started only four years ago.