Anonymous wrote:This is why middle schools need to stop pushing the kids to start taking a language. It can screw up your GPA and there is nothing you can do. I personally don't think languages should be started until 8th grade or do 1A in 7th grade and 1B in 8th because you can still make it to the 5th level of the language if you go until your senior year, and colleges only want a minimum of 2 and competitive colleges could ask for up to 4.

EMPHATICALLY NOT. You're looking at it from a grade perspective, not from the intended purpose of learning a language, which is... learning a language!

Brains are more able to take in a language when they are young, the younger, the better. Language classes need to start in ELEMENTARY, and never count as anything other than the grade level they are taken in.
Other countries start their language classes earlier than we do. We need to understand that we're not going to be the world's superpower for much longer, and that our kids need to learn languages at an earlier age without added pressure.

There is no rhyme nor reason to this "high school course" concept. Courses taken in middle school should be middle school courses, however advanced. Courses taken in high school should be high school courses. End of story.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t like my daughters one B so I’ll ask MCPS to just remove it.

Sounds legit.

You people are NUTTY.

+1

This is what gives MoCo parents a bad name.

Anonymous wrote:This is why middle schools need to stop pushing the kids to start taking a language. It can screw up your GPA and there is nothing you can do. I personally don't think languages should be started until 8th grade or do 1A in 7th grade and 1B in 8th because you can still make it to the 5th level of the language if you go until your senior year, and colleges only want a minimum of 2 and competitive colleges could ask for up to 4.

Plus middle school kids will not be ready for high school courses after just coming out of elementary school, and these high school grades actually matter and will be seen by colleges.

This is why middle schools need to stop pushing the kids to start taking a language. It can screw up your GPA and there is nothing you can do. I personally don't think languages should be started until 8th grade or do 1A in 7th grade and 1B in 8th because you can still make it to the 5th level of the language if you go until your senior year, and colleges only want a minimum of 2 and competitive colleges could ask for up to 4.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t like my daughters one B so I’ll ask MCPS to just remove it.

Sounds legit.

You people are NUTTY.

No. What's nutty is that a language course taken in middle school would be considered a high school course. MCPS should stop doing that for middle school courses! It makes no sense whatsoever. My son takes advanced math in middle school, the grades of which will appear on his high school transcript, and even though he has all As, I think it's ridiculous.

By the end of middle school the average MCPS student will have three high school courses completed (language I, II, and Algebra 8) while those who are advanced could have up to five (Language I, II, and HIII as well as Algebra 7 and H Geometry 8). That is insane.

Same with DCPS. The only way to avoid it is to retake and hope for a better grade or switch to private school and only your actual grade 9 and up classes will be reported by them to colleges.

I think there is a way to get it removed.

MCPS has changed the rules so that the HS grades earned in MS is not automatically on the transcript and can be removed. I think it will be implemented beginning of next year.

You should appeal to the superintendent. http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/policy/pdf/ikcra.pdf

Anonymous wrote:My DD would have a 4.0 unweight on all high school level courses if it weren't for a B received in French 1B in 6th grade. She switched to Spanish the next year and hasn't been anywhere near French or that grade since she was 11. Is there a way for that grade to be removed from the transcript? It really is a shame for something like that to be messing up her gpa.

Pretty sure you had that option years ago and didn’t take it. Now not so much.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t like my daughters one B so I’ll ask MCPS to just remove it.

Sounds legit.

You people are NUTTY.

No. What's nutty is that a language course taken in middle school would be considered a high school course. MCPS should stop doing that for middle school courses! It makes no sense whatsoever. My son takes advanced math in middle school, the grades of which will appear on his high school transcript, and even though he has all As, I think it's ridiculous.

By the end of middle school the average MCPS student will have three high school courses completed (language I, II, and Algebra 8) while those who are advanced could have up to five (Language I, II, and HIII as well as Algebra 7 and H Geometry 8). That is insane.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t like my daughters one B so I’ll ask MCPS to just remove it.

Sounds legit.

You people are NUTTY.

No. What's nutty is that a language course taken in middle school would be considered a high school course. MCPS should stop doing that for middle school courses! It makes no sense whatsoever. My son takes advanced math in middle school, the grades of which will appear on his high school transcript, and even though he has all As, I think it's ridiculous.

I don’t like my daughters one B so I’ll ask MCPS to just remove it.

Sounds legit.

You people are NUTTY.

Anonymous wrote:Why would they count a elementary school/middle school grade in a high school transcript?

it was a high school course - languages nearly always are in mcps.

Would colleges take the date into consideration? I wonder if something from so long ago really matters in admissions.

Why would they count a elementary school/middle school grade in a high school transcript?

That does sound completely unfair to be lugging something from so long ago.

My DD would have a 4.0 unweight on all high school level courses if it weren't for a B received in French 1B in 6th grade. She switched to Spanish the next year and hasn't been anywhere near French or that grade since she was 11. Is there a way for that grade to be removed from the transcript? It really is a shame for something like that to be messing up her gpa.