Rotation or Spanish in middle school

[Anonymous]

Which would you choose?

[Anonymous]

6th grade? Rotation
Older grades: language

[Anonymous]

Language in MS
Some hire tutors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which would you choose?

What do you mean by rotation?

[Anonymous]

I would do language, unless you are in a competitive magnet. Kids need challenge, and that is basically the only class my kid took that required any studying (and he was in the most advanced math track and took HIGH).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Which would you choose?

What do you mean by rotation?

Many middle schools offer a rotation of four different elective classes for sixth graders, one per each quarter.

[Anonymous]

Does your kid know a heritage language already?

If not, language in 6th + home study.

[Anonymous]

Top colleges want to see 4 years of language in HS. Our kids each started foreign language in 6th, and if we had to do it over again, we wouldn't do this - let them take the elective (I think what you are calling rotation).

The foreign language teachers are notiously bad, better they deal with it for 6 years than 7

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top colleges want to see 4 years of language in HS. Our kids each started foreign language in 6th, and if we had to do it over again, we wouldn't do this - let them take the elective (I think what you are calling rotation).

The foreign language teachers are notiously bad, better they deal with it for 6 years than 7

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top colleges want to see 4 years of language in HS. Our kids each started foreign language in 6th, and if we had to do it over again, we wouldn't do this - let them take the elective (I think what you are calling rotation).

The foreign language teachers are notiously bad, better they deal with it for 6 years than 7

True at all school?
One language more than another?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top colleges want to see 4 years of language in HS. Our kids each started foreign language in 6th, and if we had to do it over again, we wouldn't do this - let them take the elective (I think what you are calling rotation).

The foreign language teachers are notiously bad, better they deal with it for 6 years than 7

The rotations are nothing special either.

Colleges want to see 4 years or AP, and AP is 6th year for students who aren't strong language learners.

Starting in 6th helps for many reasons.
Acquisition since acquisition only gets harder with age
Starting in 6th gives the options of either finishing AP earlier, having an extra year of practice, or retaking level 3 in 9th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top colleges want to see 4 years of language in HS. Our kids each started foreign language in 6th, and if we had to do it over again, we wouldn't do this - let them take the elective (I think what you are calling rotation).

The foreign language teachers are notiously bad, better they deal with it for 6 years than 7

True at all school?
One language more than another?

Excuse for lazy students/parents

[Anonymous]

My kid did rotation in 6th, joined language in 7th. 6th can be a big adjustment from ES - lots to keep track of. You know your kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top colleges want to see 4 years of language in HS. Our kids each started foreign language in 6th, and if we had to do it over again, we wouldn't do this - let them take the elective (I think what you are calling rotation).

The foreign language teachers are notiously bad, better they deal with it for 6 years than 7

Not if they get to AP, which they could do in junior year by starting language in 6th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top colleges want to see 4 years of language in HS. Our kids each started foreign language in 6th, and if we had to do it over again, we wouldn't do this - let them take the elective (I think what you are calling rotation).

The foreign language teachers are notiously bad, better they deal with it for 6 years than 7

Not if they get to AP, which they could do in junior year by starting language in 6th grade.

At our middle, that just gets you to AP in 12th. Spanish and French 1a is 6th grade and 1b in 7th. Our middle no longer allows 6th and 7th graders to do 1ab in one year.