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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PPS: this discussion, and the equally fascinating discussion about how to achieve fluency, don't belong on OP's thread asking if her kid can do Latin in a MoCo middle school.

Why don't you start a new thread and call it something like "MoCo Middle Schools Suck for Foreign Languages," because that seems to be your agenda. Then others besides me, many of whom will also have had actual experience with MoCo middle schools (unlike you), can help me deal with you, because trust me, your unpleasantness is no picnic and my days of answering your aggressively worded insinuations are numbered.[/quote]

Wow are you easy to wind up!  I actually do have experience with both systems, and then switched for private, so please don't make assumptions.  And really, if you think this is aggressive you haven't been on this board very long!  Have a nice cool drink and relax. It's just a discussion about the availability of foreign language classes.  Sheesh![/quote]

Of course there are ruder people than you. And people who make even stupider statements than your 7/13 "foreign languages are non-existent in MoCo."  But the question is: why be rude or stupid at all?

It's just so unnecessary. Unless you're trying to justify those private school tuition payments or something (because that's what it looks like).[/quote]

"stupider"?  Awesome.  
And please tell me ONE MoCo ES that offers foreign language as part of their regular curriculum.  None of this FLES nonsense.[/quote]

My kids went to a private school with language starting in PreK.  By the time they went to MoCo HS they were at the same level as the MCPS kids who started in MS.  So starting in MS is not a disadvantage and they probably covered the material my kids covered in PreK-5th in the first month.  Sidwell didn't even used to offer language in ES because they did not think it made a difference.[/quote]

This was absolutely our experience too with foreign languages in an elementary private school. Now the kids are at a MoCo HS, and they are on exactly the same level as the MoCo kids who started a foreign language in MS. However, my kids are behind the MoCo kids who did the immersion the PP is so casually dismissing as "nonsense."

And why should we write off the MoCo immersion programs as "nonsense" just to make you happy?  Go away, before you make yourself sound "stupider."[/quote]

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