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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Yup. The French Saturday School in Bethesda encourages students to take the DELF B2 exam, a French national exam, and you get a diploma for that, but it's not a high school degree - it's just a French proficiency degree. 
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You could also just do one of the French immersion programs like the ones offered at some FCPS schools.[/quote]

No, that's just what I wanted to avoid (we're in MCPS and they have a similar program). Public school classes offer only the language, completely separated from its culture, history and literature. In the weekend native language schools, you get teachers from the country who teach with the country's methods ([b]for the French school, they even give the kids the special French school paper)[/b], and even though it may just be billed as a "language" course, the teachers work with imported schoolbooks from the native country; and insert by themselves all kinds of historical and cultural facts into the class. This is not something FCPS and MCPS can do, since they have their own, American criteria for their immersion classes. 
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The French lined school paper!  I am not a French speaker, but did teach at an international school that had adopted the French handwriting system for the whole school. That was a nightmare![/quote]

PP you replied to. You don't like it? I love it. It's so structured and neat. You know exactly where to write. Also it's pretty :-)[/quote]

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