Reply to Basis PCS

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Basis PCS"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]7th grade is really late to start Spanish, French or Chinese in 2015.  And what are they going to do with kids who come in speaking, reading and writing these languages pretty well (e.g. Oyster or Yu Ying graduates), or even at the near native speaker level from being raised bilingual?  There are a couple of BASIS 6th graders who speak good Mandarin.  Shove the kids into introductory 7th grade language classes? Let me guess, they'd deserve this treatment for knowing more than Olga permits.  Strong humanities program my foot.

[/quote]

You don't know what you're talking about. 
Waste your time somewhere else[/quote]

Unfortunately, I do given that continuity in elementary-to-middle school language instruction is a problem in both DCPS and DCPC.  Say your kid attends weekly language classes in a DCPS public school for many years (e.g. Spanish at Brent, or French at Janney, or Mandarin at Maury) then heads to BASIS for 5th, where s/he can't study any modern language during the school day before 7th grade.  Or your kid arrives having already attained high proficiency in one of the languages BASIS teaches, but is encouraged to pick a new language to study in 7th grade for lack of an appropriate public school class at BASIS or elsewhere, and higher level language class scheduling issues.  It's not unusual for families to wind up providing private instruction in foreign languages outside school to keep kids on track in languages they studied in elementary school, or learned at home.

Language instruction continuity at the MS and HS levels is a sore point for some of us, and a weakness system wide. Maybe the new HOS will think outside the box on accomodating bilingual kids and others with substantial language background from the get go. Waste your time knee jerk boosting off this board.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics