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[quote=Anonymous]What HS? My kid came from private, too Spanish since kindergarten, and the counselor put them in Spanish 2 “as a placeholder” until the RT did placement testing over the summer. I watched the counselor email the Spanish RT in February with my child’s student ID and my contact information.

We never received info about a placement test. Sent many emails all summer with a different reply giving an excuse as to why the Spanish RT wasn’t doing it yet. My spouse actually showed up at the school in August to basically ask WTF? This was because the phones were coincidentally not working the week befofe pre-service week. Counselor gave my spouse ANOTHEr story and put them work on the Spanish 2 teacher.

My kid suffered through Spanish 2 for 2 weeks until they got a worksheet that was called a placement test during class and bumped up to Spanish 3. By November, the Spanish 3 teacher shared how advanced my kid is and shocked that my kid can understand everything the teacher says.

My kid found that a friend in their math class, who came from a different private school, had the same horrible experience with a different WL.

I don’t know why this RT wasn’t held to their job description. I predict the counselors were using these new students to fill lower level classes to help balance the allocation of specific teachers (I.e. justify staffing a teacher with 5 different classes versus 4 classes kind of thing).

Friends in Bethesda schools coming from private state that their kids took WL placement tests in the spring of 8th grade. Just more thing different between schools that makes a big impact on kids.[/quote]

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