Years of Foreign Language in High School
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Anonymous
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My DD took 3yrs and moved on. She hated language courses. Doubled in science one year and math in the other.
Rarely does a school require 4 years |
Anonymous
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My DS is quitting Spanish after Spanish 3 this year (10th). He's made As, but he is not a language kid and hates it. He will have to take his chances as a pointy candidate rather than the classic well-rounded one -- since he will be doing 4 AP classes next near, including Physics C and Calc BC, and will also take non-AP computer programming and engineering science, he'll be quite pointy.
As I mentioned to him yesterday, though -- it's not just getting into college, it's getting out of it. For example, he's been really interested in a highly regarded liberal arts school for physics. But it requires 11 credits of a foreign language for graduation. I think he would be much happier somewhere that didn't require foreign language for graduation. |