<p>The English department at my school is protesting the increased hours - decreased wages that have come as a result of Texas being stupid with its money in regard to education. Basically, they each have to teach an additional class (as English is a required course), and they don't get paid more for it. To protest, they're refusing to write letters of recommendation.</p>
<p>My only other social sciences were government and economics, and AP US History. AP US History was a year ago, and I hardly knew the teacher (there were some odd 30-40 students in my class period), so I don't think a letter from her would reveal anything. I took government and economics (both required classes) over summer school to make room for AP classes during the actual school year, and as a result only spent two weeks with each teacher. I don't think those letters would carry much weight either.</p>
<p>However, I've been with my foreign language (Latin) teacher for quite some time, and I feel that she knows me well enough to make an educated statement regarding who I am. Will a foreign language teacher satisfy the humanitites/social sciences recommendation? I mean, I could go way back to freshmen/sophomore year to get recs, but again, not having seen me for two to three years, I don't think they'd carry much weight either.</p>
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