Is Whitman phasing out Italian?
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Anonymous
| I noticed that this year Whitman is not offering Italian 1A/B; it only starts at Italian 2A/B. I am wondering if they are phasing out Italian and will only offer Italian 3 A/B and AP Italian next year. I know their prior Italian teacher retired a couple of years ago. TIA. |
Anonymous
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You can look up who their language coordinator is and ask.
According to the new regional specialties plan, or whatever MCPS is calling it, Whitman is slated to remain a language hub. It has always offered more languages than other MCPS high schools, OP. So I assume the current difficulties with Italian are temporary and due to the retirement and difficulties in hiring another Italian teacher. Other high schools not in the language zone, however, will probably see their language offerings dwindle to practically nothing. |
Anonymous
| Couldn't hire anyone in time |
Anonymous
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lol--i didn't realize MCPS offers Italian. So bizarre how some schools have niche offerings.
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Anonymous
| How many students delay starting language, or switch languages in high school, to learn not-French/Spanish? |
Anonymous
It's not that bizarre. If there's demand at the school-level, but not the system-level, for a language and the school decides to offer it, I don't think that's a bad thing. |
Anonymous
Or add a second foreign language? |
Anonymous
A lot of high schools offer some type of niche program. My son at Walter Johnson was in APEX (a vaguely advanced program with a cohort that stays together all 4 years) and learned Latin all the way to AP Latin. My daughter is at BCC and isn't in any special program, because she didn't want to do the IB trajectory, and that school focuses on IB. |
Anonymous
| Is Pyle still offering Italian? |
Anonymous
Yeah, I wondered too. Even in my DS' school, the only AP language courses they offered were Spanish and French, and nothing else. |
Anonymous
The richer schools have lots of different offerings. This is what MCPS considers equity. We have french and spanish. |
Anonymous
When I went to MCPS high school in the 90s, my school offered Russian, Italian and Latin as World Language options. And no, it was not a W school, it was one of the high schools in Gaithersburg. |
Anonymous
Blair offers Japanese - I don't know if there are other high schools that have Japanese as a language offering |
Anonymous
Only if it's offered 1st period at Whitman. You'd have to ask if Whitman is currently offering Italian at your kid's level during 1st period. |
Anonymous
Einstein has Japanese also. |