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[quote=Anonymous]If you care more about college than right now, she should probably continue with Spanish. As other PP's have pointed out, colleges all have different requirements, so 2+2 will in no way prevent her from going to college. It just may make some colleges more of a reach.

The concern right now for me would be that she's working hard and not seeing the pay off. Do you know why? Is it something that tutoring or something like an immersion summer camp might help? One thing I noticed when my DD was in middle school was that she'd study with her vocab right in front of her. That's going to help her memorize, but it doesn't test if she has it memorized. I showed her the difference by having her turn over her vocab sheet, and suddenly the vocab she thought she'd memorized she really only knew half of. I got her into the habit of making flash cards and that's helped her dramatically. It's possible it's just a small thing in her study habits that needs to be tweaked to make her studying more effective.

All that said, my DD started latin in HS and loves it. The stress of having to talk isn't there. And she's coming home and saying how now that she's learned something in latin, she understands what she was meant to be doing in her modern foreign language. Some of this is that the study habits she learned with her modern foreign language, she's used from the very beginning with latin, but a lot of it is just that she just really enjoys the language. [/quote]

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