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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone know if admitted waitlist kids who already took Spanish 1 and 2 need to take the TJ language test before school starts? [/quote]

Yes they need to take the placement test.  Although they administered it to my kid during the first week of school. No language teachers there in the summer .

TJ Spanish is the hardest language at the school.  Taught as an immersion class. My kid to Spanish I in MS. Tested at TJ as on the border of Spanish I and II, and they recommmended, but did not require, retaking Spanish I.  Like all newbie parents, we said— DC got straight As in MS.  A 98 in Spanish I. Is generally brilliant. Why retake?  Then reality hit. DC was making a D+ at the end of the first month, based largely not nit having the aural skills. And we had to drop them down from Spanish II to Spanish I.

Moral of the story: TJ knows what they are doing with placement. Put your kid in the class they recommend and the resist the urge to say, “But my kid is too smart to repeat”.   And if your kid has two years of standard Ms Spanish, they are likely to recommend Spanish II, not Spanish III. TJ Spanish is significantly ahead of base school Spanish. And Spanish III has a particularly nasty reputation.    My DC did FCPS  online summer Spanish III to finish the requirement, and had already learned 2/3 of the FCPS Spanish III material in TJ Spanish II.

On the same note, if TJ tells you they recommend math 2.5, rather than math 3, or standard rather than accelerated Foundations of CS, take that seriously. [/quote]

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