Dr. Jayne Abrate, Executive Director of AATF, is urging members to reply to the College Board's cancellation of the AP French Literature exam.  Please find below her request for a letter writing campaign addressed to the Trustees of the College Board; click on the links for her personal appeal to the Trustees and their addresses. 

Dear Colleagues,

As many of you know, the College Board has recently cancelled AP French Literature (2009 will be the last time it is administered).  They say it is a budget decision and it has also affected AP Latin Literature, AP Italian and one of the Computer Science APs, which all have particularly low enrollments compared to other disciplines.  We feel that this is very short-sighted.

We would like to urge you to write to the Board of Directors of the College Board.  Please write letters rather than sending e-mails.  It is too easy for someone to delete e-mails, either without reading them or without paying close attention to the content.  It is harder to ignore piles of letters.  Please keep letters entirely positive, stressing the importance of AP French Literature.  I suggest writing to the Chair of the College Board Board of Trustees and sending copies of the same letter to the other board members.  I have listed below some points you might wish to include in your letter.  The addresses of the Board of Trustees are [found here].

Please use the points below in varying orders and highlighting the ones that speak most to your concerns.  We don't want the letters to be carbon copies of one another.  If you know anything in particular about the background or interests of any of the individual board members, you might prefer to tailor your comments to speak to their interests.   Please make use of specific examples related to your students.

I am sending this e-mail to the AATF Executive Council and all those AP teachers who have contacted me.  I will send a subsequent mailing to AATF Chapter Presidents and Commission Chairs as well as to all AATF university-level members.  Please feel free to share it with interested colleagues who would be willing to write letters.  I would prefer that it not be posted on AP Central.   I will also put a link today to the information from the AATF Welcome Page.

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