Subsidizing Students
* Regarding your article, “Neglect of Bright but Poor Students Frustrates Teachers” (March 28) at La Jolla High whose advanced placement exams are not subsidized by the financially strapped school district, I submit that J.M. Tarvin, the persuasive and respected principal at La Jolla High, could raise the needed $65-a-person fee for every qualified student every year by tapping the resources of the La Jolla High School Foundation--a private fund-raising organization. Surely there could be no more worthy cause than this one.
In the interim, we can all lobby Gov. Pete Wilson to pass legislative relief on this matter, the bill of State Sen. Gary Hart that calls on the state to pay the exam fees for needy students. It’s the very same bill that last year was nixed by former Gov. George Duekmejian.
FRANCES O’NEILL ZIMMERMAN
La Jolla
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