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[quote=Anonymous]Despite taking French at Deal, the Deal 8th grade French teacher advised our child to start with French I at JR, which is what was indicated on the class request form.

Then schedule appears with no language and the guidance counselor says "your child already completed the two language credits to graduate from high school while in middle school." We explained why we believe that it is important to continue language study at high school and requested a change. We were told that students "can't repeat classes at DCPS" and child was placed in French III and told to figure out with the teacher whether they belonged there.

This scenario shows that foreign language is considered an "extra" and not a valued part of an education, which is out of step with most of the world.

How can a school responsibly determine the appropriate language level without a simple assessment at the start of school? Or even at the end of the prior school year?

Would like to hear other parents' experiences with their children enrolling in foreign language classes at JR and what the experience has been like overall?

Do most students comfortably start at level 3 at JR after middle school language when they started as beginners? The teacher at Deal admitted that the pandemic threw things off and that students were behind where they should have been at the end of 8th grade.

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