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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How’a World Languages in BCC?[/quote]

My kid started Spanish at Westland. Ms Fuentes in 8th grade is a brilliant teacher, and then she had another demanding teacher in 9th grade for Spanish 4. Sadly now in Spanish 5, mixed with IB students, the level is *easier* and she's wondering what that means for AP Spanish preparedness next year. Was the Spanish 4 teacher teaching above the curriculum? Is it the Spanish 5 teacher that's dumbing things down? Weird![/quote]

The problem is 5, it goes back to demanding next year.[/quote]

Do they go easy in 5 because they think kids will leave at Level 5 (meeting the two years of same world language in high school)? Or is it a way to get students to continue on to Level 6 (or whatever it is called) so they make it *easier* at Level 5? Is this easier to harder pattern true of the other languages MCPS offers at Level 4, 5 and 6 (or Level 7, AP or IB)?[/quote]

Honestly, not sure. I think it’s because Spanish 5 introduces or uses the IB curve, and it makes it so kids that have or would have 75% C actually equals an A. But also you need to consider your kid spent a whole year in Spanish 4, which is the biggest jump in MCPS, they are used to all the language skills as they have been working on them for a whole year, so maybe 5 just seems easier because it tends to be an extension of 4. But also, my DD has expressed SPA5 is just not taught the greatest way and they feel like they have lost most of the Spanish they learned in 4, which was more intensive than all her years and the year she learned the most.[/quote]

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