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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No foreign language?[/quote]
 Taking level 4 this year and is DONE. I would love for him to continue but am not pushing it. He literally complains about Spanish daily and his schedule next year is hard.[/quote]

Isn't it a big deal for colleges to see 3+ years of foreign language in high school? [b]From everything I've heard, it doesn't matter how far a student gets in a language but instead how many years they take in high school. So even though he got to Spanish 4 in Sophomore year, colleges will see 2 years of language[/b]. Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong![/quote]

That is what everyone says on this board.  It seems beyond dumb to me.  My younger kid is in Spanish 2 in 8th grade.  He hates Spanish, and taking 3 more years is NOT what he wants to do.  If the bolded is actually correct, he'd be better off starting over in Spanish 1 next year and just gliding through it through his junior year.  Can that possibly be what colleges want?  It seems very a**-backwards.  My older kid will end up in Spanish 7 by graduation, but they like Spanish okay, so that's okay for them.[/quote]
Yep. Very a**-backwards but it is what it is.

Note - did your son get As in middle school Spanish 1 and 2? If he did, he may not be allowed to retake Spanish 1 and 2 in high school.

My DD - not a big fan of languages either - had As in Spanish 1 and 2 in middle school. Signed up for Spanish 3 as a freshmen. It was kinda challenging for her so she tried to see if she could just retake Spanish 1. She was told she couldn't because she already got As in those classes.[/quote]

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