Options for Language Instruction after DCPS Cuts?
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Anonymous
| DCPS is cutting some language offerings at the high school level. Does anyone have ideas on alternative options? Any online options that schools would accept for credit? |
Anonymous
| Wait, what languages? Where? |
Anonymous
| Everywhere but Ward 3. |
Anonymous
| I believe Mandarin and Italian. |
Anonymous
| Not language, but my ES is losing 2 science teachers. These budget cuts are very disappointing. |
Anonymous
| Duolingo mis bebes |
Anonymous
Good try, but you failed. Ward 3 is suffering the same cuts. |
Anonymous
| Hardy Middle in Ward 2 cut Mandarin but kept Spanish and Italian. |
Anonymous
Your elementary has two dedicated science teachers? Where is this? I've never heard of that. |
Anonymous
I wish my ES school would cut our language class (waste of time and kids have learned nothing in the many years we've been there) and have a Science teacher instead!!! |
Anonymous
j Agree. But OP is asking about HS and cutting FL at that level is concerning. |
Anonymous
Madness. 1.8 billion Chinese in the next superpower and they kept...Italian? Where's the vision on DCPS' part? |
Anonymous
| Italian is nuts (as is keeping Latin- a dead language) |
Anonymous
+1. My oldest (upper elementary) informed me last week that "we don't do science." Since Covid, she's also had one year of Spanish, one year of nothing, and now one year of a different language, which seems ... not helpful? |
Anonymous
| For kids who have already taken several years of Chinese, are they just supposed to start over with a new language? My kids currently take Chinese at Deal, and I’m concerned it will be cut in the future, whether at Deal or Jackson-Reed. What do these schools expect kids on the Mandarin language track to do when their language gets cut? |