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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FYI - Colleges want to see a minimum of 2 years of a foreign language in high school. No matter how far your child gets in foreign language in middle school, they will need to take at least two years in high school to meet the college acceptance requirements for many schools.[/quote]
Can you name a specific college where this is the case?  I have heard that this is not really true. If your DC takes 3 years in MS and Language 4 in HS I have heard that this is fine for any college.  They do not need to take Language 5.[/quote]
We made out kid to repeat Lang 2 in 8th grade, to avoid Lang 3 in 8th and Lang 4 in 9th.
My child now  in 9th taking Lang 3, and that will be it. 
Spoke with UMD, they will allow it (kind of exception, but my child is bilingual anywhay). Child is planing to take different language in college and will go for Engineering, so we do not care that much about languages...
If you go for SLAC, you may need to take 2 years in HS. Other than that, one year in HS would be fine.[/quote]

Interesting because my kid (now in 7th) is going to take Spanish 3 in 8th and then probably repeat 3 in 9th.  I thought repeating Spanish 3 would be better than repeating Spanish 2. We only speak one language in our house but he is doing very well so far and seems to have a knack for it.  I know from my older that the jump to 3 is great so our thinking was that repeating as a freshman would lighten the transition to HS and then make DS really well prepared for Spanish 4. Do you feel strongly that repeating 2 is a better path?[/quote]

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