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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In order to take a double period AP Biology class senior year, DD needs to drop either Spanish or band. Is it better to have four years of language, terminating in Honors Spanish 4, or four years of band, terminating in Wind Ensemble? If she keeps both, she’d need to take Health in summer school, which she really doesn’t want to do.

She wants to study Biology or Environmental Science in college.[/quote]

Better for what?
For college admissions, it doesn't matter.

For your your daughter (remember her?), whichever she cares more about.

Learning language in school is completely useless. No one learns language in school. You learn language and immersion.

You can't do band on your own.

[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ9U4Cbb4wg[/youtube][/quote]

Umm … having a foundation for a language in school is pretty helpful though.

The extent of ignorance on this thread is astonishing.[/quote]

No.  We’re not ignorant simply because we disagree with you.

You think that learning a language in school is more fulfilling.  I think that playing in a musical ensemble in school is more fulfilling.

Either way, it doesn’t really matter.  What matters is what OP’s kid finds more fulfilling/rewarding.  [/quote]

No. I think both are fulfilling. I am a musician and played music throughout high school as my main extracurricular. I also took 4 years of a foreign language.

It’s actually possible to love both. [/quote]

And I agree with you.  It’s possible to love both languages and music.  I took French and Spanish and played the clarinet through college.

But MCPS implements scheduling conflicts so that the OP’s daughter needs to choose one.

In OP’s case, it sounds like SHE (not you) enjoys music better.  Probably Band would be better for her mental health and her whole self.  If she doesn’t love Spanish, why push it?[/quote]

This is not an mcps issue but a parent and child who did not plan.   You can knock out some graduation requirements in middle school and do health Ed in summer school for flexibility.  Lots of kids in health Ed right now to make both happen.  [/quote]

Wow.  You sound smug and bitter.

And you are wrong.

Health B was not offered last year in MCPS summer school.  How could she have taken it?[/quote]

Smug and bitter?  OP said child has not taken Health A or B.  Ideally they would have taken Health A already and taken Health B this summer.  Their failure to plan is not MCPS's fault.[/quote]

Why on earth should kids be forced to rely on summer school? That’s absurd.[/quote]

28 classes in high school. If you want more, you need to do it on summer or middle school. [/quote]

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