Middle School French Language

[Anonymous]

DS has been taking French classes outside of school last year and this summer. Do you know if MCPS allows kids to skip French 1AB and go straight to French 2AB?

[Anonymous]

Yes. Email the counselor and cc the grade-level AP.

However, unless the middle school is one of those receiving kids from immersion programs (SSIMS, Westland), you should know that they likely will not have access to French 4 at the MS level and will need to travel to the HS if they want to continue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Email the counselor and cc the grade-level AP.

However, unless the middle school is one of those receiving kids from immersion programs (SSIMS, Westland), you should know that they likely will not have access to French 4 at the MS level and will need to travel to the HS if they want to continue.

Our MS has done away with access to French 3, so if you are talking about a 6th grader taking French 2, it is 2 years of travel to the HS for French

[Anonymous]

Pyle has in-house French Honors 3

[Anonymous]

Would you mind sharing where can we find private French tutors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you mind sharing where can we find private French tutors?

The teachers at MCPS schools will frequently tutor. We have a tutor from BCC who works with our DS who attends Whitman.
If your child has a French teacher, they will be able to either provide you with a list or put out a general email to everyone to see if there's interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you mind sharing where can we find private French tutors?

The teachers at MCPS schools will frequently tutor. We have a tutor from BCC who works with our DS who attends Whitman.
If your child has a French teacher, they will be able to either provide you with a list or put out a general email to everyone to see if there's interest.

I am confused. Are you saying that the school teacher will do private tutoring?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you mind sharing where can we find private French tutors?

The teachers at MCPS schools will frequently tutor. We have a tutor from BCC who works with our DS who attends Whitman.
If your child has a French teacher, they will be able to either provide you with a list or put out a general email to everyone to see if there's interest.

I am confused. Are you saying that the school teacher will do private tutoring?

MCPS teachers may not tutor kids in the school(s) where they teach. But they routinely tutor kids from other schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you mind sharing where can we find private French tutors?

Private group lessons for 2 kids with teacher from Alliance Française. Not cheap but that is our preferred option due to day and time availability.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Email the counselor and cc the grade-level AP.

However, unless the middle school is one of those receiving kids from immersion programs (SSIMS, Westland), you should know that they likely will not have access to French 4 at the MS level and will need to travel to the HS if they want to continue.

Our MS has done away with access to French 3, so if you are talking about a 6th grader taking French 2, it is 2 years of travel to the HS for French

It looks like our MS (Julius West) only have French 1 & 2. DS is rising 7th grader hoping to take French 2. He took Spanish in 6th grade.

[Anonymous]

Check with MCPS central curriculum offices about the possibility of taking higher-level language courses not available at your child's school via the virtual academy (just the one class/still enrolling at the in-person school). Then bring that to the discussion with the school administration as an option to go along with bussing back & forth to the high school. There would be challenges with & advantages to each.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you mind sharing where can we find private French tutors?

Private group lessons for 2 kids with teacher from Alliance Française. Not cheap but that is our preferred option due to day and time availability.

I don't recommend AF. Very French some of those teachers, really axxholes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Would you mind sharing where can we find private French tutors?

The teachers at MCPS schools will frequently tutor. We have a tutor from BCC who works with our DS who attends Whitman.
If your child has a French teacher, they will be able to either provide you with a list or put out a general email to everyone to see if there's interest.

I am confused. Are you saying that the school teacher will do private tutoring?

How is that post confusing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DS has been taking French classes outside of school last year and this summer. Do you know if MCPS allows kids to skip French 1AB and go straight to French 2AB?

Why would you do this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS has been taking French classes outside of school last year and this summer. Do you know if MCPS allows kids to skip French 1AB and go straight to French 2AB?

Why would you do this?

If the child already know French 1 stuff, why would they want to retake French 1 as opposed to going to French 2 and learning new things?