Helping DC through tough required class

[Anonymous]

DC at LAC and the language requirement is making life miserable. DC is doing a great job seeking help- going to office hours, using on campus tutoring, etc. but the class is hard for DC and meets daily, making every day a slog. The requirement means there will be multiple semesters of this and DC chose the language thought to be easiest.

DC has a negative attitude toward it and calls crying almost every week. Besides empathizing and offering words of support, any suggestions how to support DC through this? I've tried emphasizing the other great social and athletic activities DC is involved in, but this class is overshadowing the good things.

[Anonymous]

You need to step waaaay back. Your kid will survive.

[Anonymous]

Hopefully not a boy

[Anonymous]

Withdraw. Take summer class at a community college to meet the requirement.

[Anonymous]

DD going through same (but no crying because this was all known when she chose the one college that had a FL requirement). She just signed up for 2 summer sessions online to get the requirement over with.

[Anonymous]

I'm sorry other posters are being mean - this board attracts some trolls.

If your dc has documented learning disabilities, many colleges will waive the foreign language requirement.

If not, they should find out whether a summer language course - at their college or another accredited college - could fill the requirement. That way, maybe they could drop language this semester and then focus just on that one class over the summer. I know many college students who do this with their tougher requirements and also to preserve their GPAs. Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Look, OP, these responses are to be expected. Your kid isn't in the trenches in a foreign war or picking apples in an orchid. She's in college taking a tough class. Tell her to count her blessings and grow up.

[Anonymous]

How many foreign language semesters left to go? I'm sorry she is going through this. I was very aware of my own weak FL skills and had to eliminate several college choices/paths/majors because of it. Might she get a waiver? If there's chance at all a LD for FL can be arranged, I'd go for that. Otherwise, keep on eye on this as I've heard of students getting very close to college graduation and not being able to cross the finish line because of the college's FL requirement. Any chance she'd consider switching schools? That would also have to be chosen very carefully.

[Anonymous]

Oh no! Hard things!

[Anonymous]

Did they not do a language in high school? Why did they choose a LAC with a language requirement if they knew foreign languages were so trauma inducing?

[Anonymous]

The trolls in this thread probably have kids at JMU, telling OP to step "waaaay back". What a joke.

[Anonymous]

Is it Spanish?

Consider summer study abroad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry other posters are being mean - this board attracts some trolls.

If your dc has documented learning disabilities, many colleges will waive the foreign language requirement.

If not, they should find out whether a summer language course - at their college or another accredited college - could fill the requirement. That way, maybe they could drop language this semester and then focus just on that one class over the summer. I know many college students who do this with their tougher requirements and also to preserve their GPAs. Good luck.

Oh sure, that's it. Just go buy yourself a document learning disability and voila - mommy has solved the problem again.

OP, your kid is being a brat and you are being an enabler. But I suspect this is nothing new.

[Anonymous]

OP, poster 10:31 again. Give me more information and I can be helpful

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The trolls in this thread probably have kids at JMU, telling OP to step "waaaay back". What a joke.

Not trolls, just reasonable parents trying to produce independent adults.