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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me be a different voice here -- you would have DS not take a language because of grades on his transcript?  You value grades more than education itself?  Yikes.

Let me channel my inner Dennis Miller and go off on a bit of a rant here (trigger warning, I'm about to get unnecessarily harsh here to make a well-intentioned point) ...

Learning a foreign language enriches the student in many ways that transcend grades.  Had my parents taken that same attitude, and not encouraged me to take a foreign language in 7th grade in my public middle school, then I would not have:

(i) opened my eyes to the world, eventually becoming fluent in multiple languages; 
(ii) gotten the full scholarship (100% free ride) to college; and 
(iii) gotten the jobs I did after college and business school.

My annual income is now in the low 7 figures, which would certainly not be the case had I not taken a foreign language in 7th grade.  These are the choices that separate the high-earners in Cleveland Park from the GS-15s in Herndon.

But hey, by all means let junior take basket-weaving for the "A".   Maybe my kids can hire him some day.

Ok, Dennis Miller off.

Good luck with your decision. 
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This is 100% accurate.  Everyone saw the new report, right?  That the way MOCO is going to close the achievement gap is to enforce a foreign language starting from kindergarten on through grade 12.  Turns out that's they key to success. [/quote]

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