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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kids are bilingual and take our home in high school at one level higher than most peers and are doing well. Our friends, also with bilingual kids, enrolled their children in a Saturday language school, where the kids get what is essentially a second high school diploma from the home country. This has allowed their children to take a different language in school, meaning their kids are trilingual and they have a truly impressive extracurricular that shows commitment (the language school is intense) and has shaped their children’s entire narrative (the kid volunteered for a summer in the home country, has an internship next summer with an developing markets investment firm focusing on a part of the world using our language, etc.

I’m just kicking myself because if I had thought through this 10 years ago, I feel my child would be in a much better position college application wise. These friends had asked if we would be interested in doing the Saturday school with them, but it conflicted with sports and travel and our kid plays hs soccer but certainly isn’t going to get recruited.

Just a vent, but feeling like my past self let my high schooler down. [/quote]

Was this the German school (DSW) in Potomac? [/quote]

No I bet it’s Escuela Argentina. It’s the only school I know where you can actually earn a high school diploma from that country.  It’s certified by the Ministry of Education in Argentina.  [/quote]

My kids first language is Spanish, so we considered La Escuela Argentina, since I knew a few teachers at the school. We are not Argentinian, but had heard great things about the program.

However, once my eldest started playing peewee soccer, and LOVED the game, there was no way we would give it up for Saturday language school. Plus, the commute was a bit much for is as well. Both my kids took AP Spanish junior year, and their Spanish skills are good enough to go back to our home countries and carry on conversations. I always text them in Spanish, just to keep their reading skills up.

Yeah, it would have been nice for them to start French or German in middle school, but their Catholic school only offered Spanish anyway. [/quote]

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