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[quote=Anonymous]You make this observation because you're not dealing with a sophisticated school system. The better systems in this country now permit students to test out of required language study by demonstrating proficiency in various languages, even if they aren't taught in schools. Many systems allow students to test out in any of the 7 AP languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin and Spanish. Some also allow testing-out for the 3 NEWL Languages: Korean, Russian and Arabic. Some systems will even let students test out for less common major immigrant languages, e.g. Vietnamese, Tagalog, Farsi, Hindi and Yoruba. Come on, it's never a positive, perceived or otherwise, to fail to reward teenage students for advanced language skills. I would have thought that BASIS, founded by a multi-lingual European immigrant, Olga Block, would have been ahead of the times on the issue. But BASIS doesn't allow any kind of testing-out for language proficients. [/quote]
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