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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh, I'm sorry you're impacted, OP. It's happened at North Bethesda middle and some other schools I know, probably due to teacher shortages - they can't be everywhere at once, and the most common course is the half year course, so they've cut down to that. It's extremely annoying for the kids who were ready for more.

If you're interested, there are a couple of good Spanish weekend schools and one French one. And of course many tutors. Your kid can study privately and study for the AP exam, whether they offer it at your high school or not. 
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I doubt it is teacher shortages.  They still need the same teachers but they just cover less material.  Maybe they think the slower start mean kids end up more successful.  It is so hard to tell how much a child is learning when almost every gets an A or B[/quote]

There are dire teacher shortages everywhere, PP, to the point where Principals cannot fire terrible teachers and long-term subs with no expertise in the subject matter stay for the year, so I'm sure it must play a role. But you're right that MCPS is very much against acceleration, particularly in the aftermath of the Covid lockdown. They want to prove they're reducing the achievement gap that widened with the pandemic, and forcing high-achieving kids to take lower-level classes where everyone gets As, as you said, is a way to do that.

Sad all around.
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But the same kids are still taking the same Spanish classes.  They are just taking them more slowly.  It does not save teachers to do this.  The kids that used to take Span 1a/1b in 6th had 1 teacher all year.  Now those same kids take 1a all year and still have 1 teacher.[/quote]

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