My students did not get something for nothing as the article and the discussion of the issue seem to imply. My students worked more than twice as hard as my honors students and certainly deserve every bit of credit that accrued to them. I work more than twice as hard teaching them, too. Poll the graduated students. Ask them if the two-credit everyday all schoolyear arrangement is unjust. Also poll those who didn't get this treatment during the year ('05 - '06) while we were "saving money" (one-half of 1% of our budget) by having AP classes meet for only half the time. Our community should be fully supporting the single thing that benefits the top students in public schools, our current AP schedule. All our other resources are directed toward the bottom end of the spectrum as dictated by the NCLB constraints. What's really important is how much teaching and learning can go on in a high school course. 87 minutes per day every day is great (except when all the minutes from all the special schedules and interruptions are deducted). When the dust settles, this whole ridiculous flap is about privileged parking spaces in the NHS student parking lot. We seem to need a team from a really good law firm to defend our practices from the accusations made by Hinshaw and Culbertson LLC. Such a defense will be made extremely awkward with the Baker suit pending. But that's what happens when we turn our schools over to the courts to decide things. Meanwhile, support our teachers and our students. We're working hard at covering and absorbing our coursework. It's difficult enough _without_ the furor.