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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure what you're getting at. Some of the 5th graders at Latin who started Spanish immersion programs in PreS4 or PreK4 speak significantly better Spanish than Latin high school students who didn't start Spanish until 8th or 9th grades.[/quote]

I'm speaking to the poster who was arguing that since Wilson can put 9th graders in advanced/senior spanish, that its no big deal to put 10 year olds in more advanced spanish classes too. The thing is, the gulf of maturity, ability to manage workload, behavior, etc., is such that you just can't take a newly minted 5th grader and put them in an upper middle or high school spanish class regardless of where their language skills are. [b]Latin would have to have a special advanced spanish class only for 5th and/or MAYBE 6th graders.[/b] It's a non starter anyway you slice it.[/quote]

New to this conversation, why is it a non-starter? Every middle school class Latin does or doesn't teach is set in stone?

Didn't Latin resist teaching Spanish for over a decade but climbed down from that position recently, under pressure from the DCPCSB, to attract more Latino families?  Serious question.[/quote]

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