Start language in 6th grade or 7th?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is not that we don't value foreign language
It is that it is taught so poorly, that even though the kids get good grades in MS in I, II and honors III, when they get to HS, they are unprepared. That's when the shock hits, and it is not the child's fault - it is that the MS teachers (including frequent substitutes, including long term substitutes who don't speak the foreign language they arw supposed to be teaching) are consistently bad.

In every single school? I find it hard to believe that every middle school world language teachers are horrible and in high school they're all wonderful.

[Anonymous]

As later as possible - if you want to make sure s/he will have a very basic vocabulary and strong accent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is not that we don't value foreign language
It is that it is taught so poorly, that even though the kids get good grades in MS in I, II and honors III, when they get to HS, they are unprepared. That's when the shock hits, and it is not the child's fault - it is that the MS teachers (including frequent substitutes, including long term substitutes who don't speak the foreign language they arw supposed to be teaching) are consistently bad.

This has not been our experience. SD has had great French teachers in level 1- 3 honors in middle school. I studied French through high school and college, so I’m not clueless about what she is learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As later as possible - if you want to make sure s/he will have a very basic vocabulary and strong accent.

Do you mean as *early* as possible