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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hardly any. Wilson is the only DC public HS teaching Chinese, and they've only been teaching it for a few years. To my knowledge, nobody's taken the AP Chinese exam there yet.

BASIS seems to content for kids to score high on a single AP language test, not very hard to do, at least not if a student started studying the language young. Some of us plan to switch to International Baccalaureate Diploma granting high schools (suburban, private, possibly DCI).  Knowing that IB Diploma language studies take students a long way past a decent score on a single AP language exam, we supplement in MS, which is a bit tough on the kids (with all the school work they already have).

AP Chinese is so approachable that more than 80% of test takers earn a 5, the highest percentage of any AP test. IB Diploma Chinese at the Higher Level is another story altogether. We're aiming to score high on IB HL Chinese eventually, helping explain our annoyance with mandatory Latin here in the century of the rising China.

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Did Wilson ever manage to hire a Chinese teacher?[/quote]

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