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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have the other post on this topic.  My daughter started German immersion at first grade. We went to Orange Hunt for elementary, and Irving right now for middle, and we were supposed to go to West Springfield to continue on in German. Our base school does not have German.  I’ve been emailing back-and-forth to the transfer office in the basic messages so out of luck. 
German is my daughter’s favorite class, all her friends have been together in it since first grade, and now she has to change in high school

If they had let me know, maybe we would’ve changed her mind about middle school and she is an anxious and shy child as well  her friends are important to her[/quote]

There’s no German Immersion at WSHS. Your special program ended. Back to base school. You should have established residency in the Orange Hunt boundary back in 2018 if you cared so much about the high school. [/quote]

Bless your heart.  [/quote]

We own a home in WSHS boundary that was going to be rezoned out because of all these language transfers in. Of course I’m salty.

German Immersion in an elementary level program. There is no German Immersion at the middle school and high school level and no room in the neighborhood schools for extra students. [/quote]

Immersion 100% continues in 8th grade, there is a language immersion specific class at the MS that the ESLI program feeds into. I know this is the case for Japanese and Korean. Maybe it is different for Spanish, French, and German and the kids move into the regular language class but at least Japanese and Korean Immersion continues in MS and then into HS[b] as the kids need two additional years of language if they taake language all 4 years.[/b]  [/quote]

It's not entirely clear to me if the expectation from colleges is that the kids have a total of 4 years of a WL or have a WL all 4 years of HS (which could have some kids taking 6 years of the language).[/quote]

I think that the language requirements are less concerning then the math requirements. You need 4 years of Math in HS, regardless of taking HS math in MS. [b]Foreign language is less worried about it all being in HS, at least that is my impression[/b]. If you have 4 years of a language and you stop to take electives that are of interest to you. Plenty of colleges don't require 4 years of language, that is a less set in stone requirement then math. [/quote]

UVA absolutely cares that all 4 of the years were in high school.[/quote]

I would guess that UVA's Engineering program would be cool with a kid getting a 5 on AP WL and taking a STEM AP class as a senior instead of a 6th year of foreign language to get in 4 years at HS. Different programs have different bars for kids. Humanities programs will care more about language then STEM programs. Plenty of Engineering schools will happily take kids with 2-3 years of foreign language with the right mix of STEM classes.[/quote]

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