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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My understanding is that all schools in FCPS put immersion students going from elementary into middle school into a streamlined two year sequence that covers three years of high school credits, resulting in them going to high school ready for Japanese/French/Spanish 4.  This is a relatively recent change; beforehand they took the equivalent of Language Year1 in 7th and Language Year2 in 8th.[/quote]

Well this would make no sense at an IB school. My immersion kid had no choice but to take Spanish 4 at Robinson even though it was a total waste, because they can only take the IB exam as a senior. So if they were to take 4 as a freshman, they would have no language to take in 10th.[/quote]

DS is in Japanese Immersion. He will have the opportunity to take Japanese as a high school class in MS. That would be Japanese 1 and 2. He will need Japanese 3 and 4 at HS. No one has told us that the kids in the JI program end up in Japanese 4 as Freshmen, if that is happening it is a huge change in the program. Also, we have been told that the kids who are not able to handle the HS level Japanese in MS are guided to the beginning Japanese classes at the MS level and will end up starting HS having completed Japanese 1 instead of Japanese 2. The anecdotal evidence from our ES is that about 1/3 of the kids end up moving into the regular MS Japanese program.

I am not sure how South Lakes handles the kids from JI taking the IB exam, if they make the kids wait until their Senior year or not. I do know neighborhood kids who were in JI who talked about taking some Japanese DE classes in their Junior and Senior year but they may not have been attempting the IB diploma. [/quote]

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