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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should ask your school IB coordinator what to do.

There MAY be a way for him to do summer work this summer or next summer to complete the IB language requirement. This could be independent study rather than a formal class.[/quote]

There is! Ask your IB coordinator about doing an "ab intio" language course. It may involve online/summer work, but the IBO absolutely allows this and an ab initio course fulfills the SL Language requirement.

IB is specifically designed so that World Bank, diplomat, NGO, etc kids whose families move a lot can change schools easily and maintain the same curriculum/standards across countries. I went to an international school that did IB and served a population of kids like this, and situations like this happened all the time. Our school only offered IB French, Spanish, and Mandarin, but kids would transfer in after taking years of Arabic, Japanese, etc so they'd have to start a new language. The philosophy of IB also maintains that anyone can start the DP without doing MYP, and plenty of kids around the world do so without having three prior years of a language.

Ab initio language courses allow you to start a new language at the beginning of the diploma program (ie, junior year, so your kid absolutely has time to complete it). If getting the IB diploma program is important to him, I think it's worth pursuing.

https://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/curriculum/language-acquisition/language-ab-initio/

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