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[quote=Anonymous]You are only required to take two full years of the same world language to meet the high school graduation requirement. You can choose whether to have your middle school world language classes appear on your high school transcript. If you count them for high school credit, you’ve met don’t HAVE to take more world language courses to graduate, but every high school counselor is going to tell you that colleges with competitive admissions are looking for at least two years of the same world language taken IN HIGH SCHOOL, regardless of what you took in middle school. That’s what pp mom and teacher is referring to.

One of my kids attended our local middle school and took a full year of Spanish 1A in 6th grade (would be one semester if taken in high school) and a full year of Spanish 1B in 7th grade (would also only be one semester if taken in high school). This was during Covid distance learning and she really struggled with virtual classes. I had her retake Spanish 1B as an 8th grader because I knew she really had no foundation to move on to Spanish 2. She still struggled to get a C. We ended up not counting any of her middle school world language classes on her high school transcript. She took Spanish 1A and 1B her freshman year and Spanish 2A and 2B her sophomore year and did much better. She met the graduation requirement, and her transcript shows two years of world language in high school. That was what was best for her.

My other child attended the Humanities magnet at MLK MS, which happens to be a Junior IB school. Junior IB schools require kids to take a full year of world language every year, so my child who went to MLK took Spanish 1A and 1B in 6th grade, 2A and 2B in 7th grade, and 3A and 3B in 8th grade. That dc then attended Poolesville HS, where the only options available were to switch to a different world language or take Spanish 4A and 4B as a freshman and then AP Spanish as a sophomore or just not take two years of Spanish in high school. My kid really didn’t want to take AP Spanish or switch to a new world language, so they only went through Spanish 4 as a freshman and then stopped taking a world language. This is against the advice from counselors on how to be competitive in college admissions (two years of same world language taken IN HIGH SCHOOL). This is what mom/teacher pp was talking about.[/quote]

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