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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait until you hit 8th grade Spanish 3. The posters kids might have been one of the lucky ones that got A's.  I know numerous magnet kids that had their GPA dinged here. Let's be clear, an B is fine for an average kid, but considering out of 154,000 kids and they only take the top 100 highest scoring/and other info into the program, these are smart and motivated kids.  there are way too many magnet kids getting a B grade with this teacher. And 100 percent of them would have gotten a solid A taking the same course at any other middle or high school.

The people that say Spanish 4 is boring/easy at Blair prove this.  National Merit Scholars with one B grade, and it's the B in Spanish 3 at TPMS.[/quote]

A simple solution is repeat Spanish 3 in HS,[b] the MS grade is purged from the record[/b] since the transcript is not actually generated until 9th grade.  There's nothing wrong with a challenging course or the occasional demanding teacher but it is a shame if this bangs up a middle schooler's HS transcript.[/quote]

Hmm, not sure about this. My DC, also a casualty of Spanish 3 at TPMS, did retake it at Blair and got an A. But both those grades still appear on the Graduation Credit Report that we receive twice a year. Perhaps the final high school transcript will look different, but as of now both grades are still noted.[/quote]

I teach Spanish in the county- and middle school language classes retaken in high school are purged from the record.   FWIW, students across the board tend to find the jump from Spanish 2 to Spanish 3 to be a big one.  Spanish 1 and 2 are exceedingly slow.  I can't speak to the program at that particular school, though. [/quote]

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