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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This probably doesn’t help you but several of the Loudoun county middle schools do. [/quote]

Yes, German seems more accessible in NoVa. I can't remember exactly where her kids go to school but I met someone recently whose kids are at a German immersion elementary in Fairfax or Arlington. Public school. I had never heard of German immersion at all -- I think that's great it's an option.

I get the arguments for Spanish, Chinese, and French, but there is absolutely no reason why DC high schools, at least, wouldn't offer at least two years of German. First off, there will be many kids in DC who are at a high level of proficiency in Spanish/Chinese/French by high school due to immersion programs, so offering other options as a second language makes sense. Second, there are a huge number of people in this area with German heritage, and the international nature of DC means that an above average number of people in this area wind up working abroad or working for foreign companies and organizations. German has plenty of potential practical uses.

DC has a Hebrew immersion school so I'm not sure that "usefulness" should be the only metric used here.

I grew up in a small town in one of those big square states in the middle of the country and my HS offered German up to AP. Also offered Spanish, French, and Mandarin, though they had trouble recruiting teachers for the Mandarin classes so that program was not as robust.[/quote]

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