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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly. I am wondering what other similarly situated parents have done or plan to do with respect to maintaining a foreign language during the middle school years.  If Basis has a decent number of students from immersion schools, might those students have an opportunity to be connected and look at ways to pursue opportunities for tutoring, trips, etc. outside of the school?  I am also wondering whether students from immersion schools purposefully shift to a new language at 8th grade rather than repeat a lot of what they already know in an advanced beginner type of class? Also, does anyone know if Basis students truly can select their foreign language at 8th grade, or whether they risk not being able to get their first choice of a foreign language?  [/quote]

Each language caps at 30 kids.  So, if more than 32 kids apply for, say, French for 8th grade, then they will do a lottery and two kids will get their second choice.

The 8th grade is usually well below 100 kids (although it seems to get bigger every year); it was around 92 this year.

Languages offered are Spanish, French, Mandarin, and Latin.[/quote]

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