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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A word of advice from a parent of high schoolers:
- Have your kids take the technology credit in middle school.
- Consider having your kids start a foreign language later in middle school or in high school instead of 6th grade.  That way they can appease colleges by taking 2-4 years of the same foreign language without having to take the AP level course.  My son earned three credits of Spanish in middle school and now feels pressured to do two more levels even though he greatly dislikes foreign language and would rather focus more on STEM.  I think it would have benefitted him more to skip foreign language in middle school and take Spanish 1 and 2 in high school.   [/quote]

How can you get the technology credit in 6th grade? Specifically, what Loiederman classes fulfill the technology credit. I don’t see any in the course bulletin. [/quote]

I'm sorry for not explaining.  High schools don't offer the technology credit in 6th grade, but many (if not all) do offer it for high school credit in 8th grade.  It's really helpful to get it out of the way in middle school to open up the high school schedule for other courses, even more advanced courses in technology/engineering.  I wish we had known this but it wasn't widely publicized when my son was in middle school.

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