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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]...........  If a MS kid excels in English, they won't need to study Latin to score high on the SAT verbal section eventually.

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strangely enough, my 6th grade kid LOVES Latin and wants to continue it.  I took Latin all the way through my private highschool (and ended up in a class of only 3 kids with a wonderful teacher).  We all got 5s on the AP exam, but I also made a best friend for life who fortunately has ended up in the DC area and a teacher I talked to until the day she died.  Kid has already read the Iliad and the Oddysey in English (I had read one, but not by 6th grade, and kid really loved the Classics teacher and the subject last year.  So there may be other reasons for exposing kids to Latin.   [/quote]

Wonderful. He wants to continue with Latin, and can and will. Why not let him take AP Latin as early as 8th grade if he wants?  But let others have a choice, let respect for the high-achieving individual prevail in the language acquisition sphere at BASIS, and in other areas. A control freak undercurrent in the curriculum nonpluses some of us, including parents of excellent students.

BASIS students who excel at French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese etc. shouldn't have to study Latin, or any other language, to reach for the stars academically.  MoCo understands this, explaining why they don't force MS students in public programs to take language classes. Language study is voluntary before HS in MoCo, yet the county's International Baccalaureate language exam scores are among country's highest.  Really.

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