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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually had a FL tutor for my kid in the summer after 5th grade, before he began 6th grade.  I had a friend who is FL teacher in MCPS and she had confided that even in Spanish 1A/B and Spanish 2A/B, they are never able to complete the full syllabus.   So the tutor covered a whole quarter worth of syllabus but did a deep dive during summer.

Spanish 1 and 2 are super easy, so it was very easy to go indepth with a tutor and really build a superb vocabulary for my kid. Anyhow, my kid went all the way to Spanish AP in 10th grade, and was always working on advance stuff because of the support outside the school.  He is quite fluent in Spanish due to the 5 years in school and the 3 years of tutoring support in MS.   He does not get too much chance to practice the language now and unfortunately he did not take FL in college. However, he listens to a lot of Spanish music and watches programs in Spanish, so who knows?[/quote]

OP here. This is pretty funny - so it was very easy for your kid because you hired a tutor before they even started 6th grade and they always had support outside of school?[/quote]

Yes.  :lol:  :lol: Do you want me to lie and say that my non-Spanish kid learned Spanish well enough to take Spanish AP and score a 5 in 10th grade, after 5 years of MCPS instruction because we relied on MCPS and the teachers?  LOL.  Now that is pretty funny.  Who would drink the MCPS Kool-aid so blindly? Only someone who got their K-12 education in US.

I put remediation measures in place before the school started because I was made aware that for  Spanish 1 and 2, the teachers never cover the full syllabus or everything that is in the textbook.  1 and 2 are the foundation on which the rest of the FL education depends.  Every parent was boo-hooing about how Spanish 3 is so hard. Well, duh! There were two wasted years where they did not teach Spanish 1 and 2 correctly. Of course, Spanish 3 will kick the butt of the kids.

Giving credit where it is due - the textbooks that they use is pretty solid (Realidades 1, 2, 3 etc), but if they don't cover the material, then I am not going to let my kid's education be impacted because of inefficiency of people who are not invested in their future.

Hope it helped.  Good luck! :thumbup:

Just wanted to add -  I did not just hire a tutor.  I hired an experienced and fantastic MCPS HS Spanish teacher to tutor my kid. :)  [/quote]

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