Teacher leaves his legacy at local high school

After achieving many firsts throughout his life, Jordan Smith is teaching his final computer science course at Mountain View High School this semester. In the years since he began teaching at the San Jacinto campus, he has helped students at the alternative high school achieve goals not offered to them in the past. Following specialized training through the Riverside County Office of Education, Smith offered an Advanced Placement Computer Science course, the first AP Computer Science course offered at any alternative high school in California. Kenneth Swanson, principal of Mountain View and Mountain Heights Academy within the San Jacinto Unified School District, said the past two years were the first time that any of his schools’ students had taken an AP exam in any subject. Mountain H