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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to pay for a private tutor, OP. In the DC area, I hope you can find someone who can teach that language. If this is important for your daughter and her college and career prospects, you need to make that happen.

This happened to my friend's kids - the language they had started to study was canceled. They were furious but in public school, there's nothing you can do. There are staffing shortages, budget issues and, for some schools, no available classrooms because they're so overcrowded -  and it doesn't make sense to hire a teacher if the demand is low. [/quote]

I would bite the bullet and do this, but how would credit work in that situation? Don't the colleges need to see it on  a transcript somewhere?[/quote]

PP you replied to. My kids take their native language outside of their public school and don't take credit for it, even though their weekend language school actually has an agreement with MCPS to get half credit for every semester taken. They don't need the extra credit. But the important part is that they took (or will take) the AP exam and indicate that on their college apps. My senior got a 5/5 on his exam, and also took one of our country's language proficiency tests given by our government, and mentioned both in a couple of places, because of how the Common App is structured.

So I encourage you to get a tutor and if the College Board does not have an AP exam for that language, do your best to find another examination your kid can take, and/or have her tutor or language school include a letter of recommendation explaining her proficiency level.[/quote]

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