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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]At Hoover MS, kids who are not taking Resource have to take a foreign language beginning in 7th grade[/b].  I've always found this policy to be ridiculous because it forces kids to take a class for high school credit in 7th grade.  Why not allow kids who want to take band and another elective choose from a robotics class, ecology, or an art class?  Open up more choices - idealistically ones that don't calculate on their high school transcript?

I don't think any course should be on their high school transcript till the child is actually in 9th grade.  I also don't like how the school administration makes it a policy at our school that all kids except those in a class for academic support have to take a foreign language.  Other schools (ex. Wood MS) don't have this policy.  [/quote]

At SSIMS, they have to take foreign language in 6th grade. And SSIMS does not offer any full year IA, full year IB option. So most SSIMS 6th graders are taking high school credit foreign language.[/quote]

Actually the standard sixth grade path at SSIMS is Reading, they need a teacher recommendation to replace reading with language.  No idea how many sixth graders take language but it's probably at most 25%.  On grade level language begins in 7th, it is part of the IB program.  Even then, DC had friends who took the same level both years.[/quote]
We were told that as long as kids are reading at grade level, they start foreign language n sixth grade.[/quote]

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