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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]7.  "My 2nd grader is fluent in French.  Will she be stuck in the same class as the other 2nd graders for French or can she go to the high school French class?"  [/quote]

See, this is such tea party anti-intellectualism, and such a stupid complaint (same with the other two similar complaints - "my kid is advanced in [x];" "my kid is smart".

If a child is indeed proficient in a language (or other subject, frankly) offered by the school - why on earth is it obnoxious to ask if they can attend a class where they'll actually learn something?  Especially in a city like DC which is full of smart parents & kids, full of kids who speak or begin to speak another language at home, etc.

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If as a parent you can't trust the French teacher to figure out on her own that a kid who is fluent in the language might need differentiated instruction, then I'd be pretty pissed to be spending $30K on tuition.

So many parents jump the gun and push for a certain kind of curriculum as best for their child, when they haven't the slightest clue as to what their child is actually doing in class. Several children in a class, for example, may speak French fluently at home, but very few of them know how to [b]write[/b] French; or else their vocabulary is limited to domestic life. It is completely obnoxious for a parent to ask (i.e., [i]demand[/i]) that their kid be placed in a different class when the only source of information about class instruction is your child. Parents would be much better off asking the teacher what her opinion is first.

-A Teacher
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