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][quote=Anonymous]Pp, you're ridiculous. Do you really think the kids coming from dcps have a foundation in any language? My kid was a product of Brent's weekly mandarin classes. She learned next to nothing in those years.  The quality of instruction was lacking, to say the least.  We're very happy that Basis requires Latin for two years, and they do a great job of it..[/quote]

Don't get why BASIS requires Latin.  What would be wrong with making Latin optional, while teaching Spanish, Chinese, maybe French to families who would prefer kids to learn those languages from 5th grade, particularly those who come in with serious background for whatever reasons?  Sure, kids aren't coming in from DCPS with strong language foundations en masse, now. But if a kid starts weekly Spanish in PreK3 (as at Brent this year) and continues through 5th grade, they're likely to learn a certain amount of Spanish, particularly if families supplement. 
[quote][/quote]

There has been for a while a class for kids who come from native or almost native french speaking families I think (we had two kids in MS place #4 and #6 in the nation in some competition last year) but honestly if you have really learned a language, not studying it for two years will not do untold damage.  What I hope for eventually (but we would have to get our Latino population up there) is a Spanish class for native speakers who can already speak the language but don't know how to read and write it and what is slang and what is not......

[/quote][/quote]

trying to get back on a more productive if controversial track here - Washington Latin makes kids only take Latin for 5th and 6th grade as well, and then they can start learning another language.  Assuming that many of these posters from way upthread are not opting for DCI etc presumably they are some of the thousands trying to get in there, right?

The only diffference is BASIS allows you to drop Latin after two years, and Latin doesn't?  And we still beat them in Certamen (Latin) competitions?  And that BASIS allows you to accelerate in math instead of taking Algebra 1 for 7th and 8th grade and then if you want to accelerate you have to take both Algebra II AND Geometry in 9th..........

[/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