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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our DS just moved to MCPS from France and is attending 9th grade in the DCC. His counselor opted to put him in the most basic classes, just to see how he does. It's been two weeks and he's seriously bored. I should note that he has already been through 9th grade in France, but we thought to have him repeat it in the US to help him acclimate. Also, his birthdate is past the cutoff for 10th grade this year, so, he's with his age cohort. Finally, they did move him to Honors French 3, supposedly the highest level of French offered to freshmen at his school, so that's good. But he's fully bilingual, fluent in French and he recently passed the French middle school exit exam with honors. So, I feel like 11th or 12th grade AP French would be the place for him. The counselors are nice but seem overwhelmed and meanwhile the weeks are ticking by... [/quote]
My DC who has zero exposure/experience with French, started taking French in MS - French 1 and 2, and is now in French 3 in 9th grade.  DC is not great with French, but French 3 for someone who had pretty broad exposure would be too easy.

Different schools do it differently. Some HS absolutely do allow Freshmans to take higher than FL 3.

IMO, you should've put your kid in French 4 and pushed for it.  I suspect that they also saw your kid as an international student and may have issues with English, maybe? So they put him in "On track" classes.

Two weeks is long enough to change courses. My other HSer DC wanted to change a class first week of school. Counselor stated two weeks.

Keep bugging the school. Call the Principal if necessary.

MCPS is a large school district, and it requires you to be your kid's best advocate.[/quote]

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