Dear CollegeBoard,

Many high school-teenager Indians in the U.S., like me, are feeling overwhelmed with their Spanish/French stress, because A.) the majority of these teachers hate people of Indian descent & B.) can never get help from anyone other than costly tutors if the teachers hate us. Also, there isn't really a pure use of us using these languages in life versus Hindi which many Indian-Americans are refusing to learn causing shame to their own families. Useless Indian teachers in schools whom can not teach their own subjects well would be better off just teaching Hindi (i.e. there is an Indian Biology teacher in my school who gets so many complaints about the way she teaches bio; she'd be so much better teaching Hindi instead).

Some would complain there is a lack of staff for teaching Hindi. Maybe, you can just have "Hindi" and "AP Hindi", instead of all the levels. Hindi can be possibly a combination of Hindi 1, 2, and 3, while AP Hindi could focus on us actually using it and we could also learn about Indian History and Culture throughout the course. An AP Hindi exam could be similar to any other AP language exam. These courses would popular in such high school districts with a relatively adequate amount of Indian students. In high school districts with a smaller Indian population, maybe just the "AP Hindi" exam can be offered, which Indian students can self-study for.

Others would say that offering too many languages destroys the college rule of "foreign language". However, if you just ask us, Indian students to learn Spanish/French for 1-2 years and not stress about it for almost 5 years, and take Hindi/AP Hindi after we do Spanish/French, we've still learned quite a bit of a language absolutely foreign, without us having to stress the whole time. Hindi, also has a large amount of speakers, surprisingly, even more than French, Japanese, German, Latin, and Russian.

So, our point is, offer Hindi and and AP Hindi course/exam. Many Indians will get angered if you turn us down. If we feel really angered, we may even start a protest/fast outside the CollegeBoard office for the ratification of this course/AP test. We'd ideally want these courses to be ready by the 2016-2017 year as well, as years are passing by soon.

Sincerely,

Indians in the Bay Area

Jay Hind!

Namaste to people who've just encountered this. Please sign and hope for Hindi/AP Hindi to get approved. More updates about proposing this idea to CollegeBoard will come later. Share with everyone whom you know (doesn't necessarily have to be Indian). Let's try to reach at least 1000 signatures before our next step.

Jay Hind!