Spare Advanced Placement Courses was an editorial article on the Statesman website. The author argues that the budget cut which would deny funding for the Advanced Placement Courses would in fact cost the State more money in the long run.
"More than 42,000 Texas High school students earned college credits utilizing the Advanced Placement program last year." Having personally benefited from the AP program, I can attest to the fact that have the opportunity to earn college credit in High School, saves times, money, and personal sanity during your years in college. Cutting this funding would do more harm to the state budget in the long run than it would help in the short term.
The author was appealing to all parents in the state of Texas. The article was geared towards persuading people on the benefits that AP classes have. Not only does it help save money in college, but it keeps high school students challenged and motivated, and it gives them the expereience and knowledge that they need to succeed in college.
The way this article was written, it seems to me that the author is a parent of a high school student, or has at least had a child successfully go through the AP program.
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