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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Spanish after school offerings aren't remotely serious. I've sometimes wondered why the Spanish and Chinese immersion parents in the school community have never banded together to hire after-school tutors to keep the kids' language skills going.  You'd think that admins would have worked with them to remedy the deficit long ago.  There are so many Mundo Verde, Lamb, Oyster and YuYing 4th grade grads at Latin, along with UMC parents with the dough to supplement and the savvy to fund-raise to help low SES immersion graduates.  Agree that weak language instruction at Latin is a shame, despite a strong base of language learning for maybe a quarter of the students.  Just another area where lack of ambition, resources, planning and vision trump promise.[/quote]

They are excellent at teaching Latin! From 5th grade on....and you should see the modern Greek class. [/quote]

Grand! But a good many 5th graders arrive practically fluent in Spanish and Chinese yet the school[b] can't be bothered to so much as help them retain their skills[/b], let alone build on them before 8th grade (by which time the skills have been badly eroded).  Logic dictates that this is a waste.[/quote]

My kid is a very serious violist. Should Latin be expected to retain further her skills as well?[/quote]

Advanced violin in the same category as advanced Spanish?  That's goofy, PP.

This is like asking, my kid has studied math, English and social studies in the past, should Latin be expected to advance her SCIENCE skills in 5th-7th grades as well?[/quote]

No, it's essentially the same thing. Studies show studying music is equivalent to learning a second langauge in a number of dimentions, including improving brain function. That you see it differently relates to your own values, not empirical information.

Regardless, the point is that you are asking a school to bend to your set of values. It won't and it shouldn't.  
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