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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there any way to provide input / request for another language to be taught? My kids are only in 2nd grade but zoned for NBMS and I was sort of surprised to learn how limited the second language options are. I would love for there to be Chinese primarily because of family background (and that’s the language I started taking as a foreign language back when I was in middle school many years ago…). I don’t think they’ll have much of an interest learning Spanish or French.[/quote]

There needs to be enough demand for Chinese at the school to fill the classes. That is why at most schools there is only French or Spanish. [/quote]

Right, but how do the schools measure projected demand? Is there any opportunity to voice an interest for a particular language to be offered?[/quote]

Reach out to the world language head in central office to find out. [/quote]

You will find, as with some but not all school operations, that central guidance is loosely followed and that central personnel have little power to effect adherence in this matter.  Schools pretty much decide how they identify community interest, few do detailed engagement to touch ground, relying on impressions largely born of existing offerings and, very occasionally, to a concerted effort by a sizeable group of families; none has the resources to support more than that as any kind of priority, so those few, if any, that really engage do so with unpaid effort or by sacrificing elsewhere.[/quote]

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