Anonymous wrote:OP - DC got an "A" in spanish3 over the summer. if they make DC repeat the course, I am worried how it would look on the transcript and of course would hurt GPA I feel terrible for not being able to help. Do parents reach out to counselors at TJ or is it expected for the DC to handle it?

I would understand with COVID and virtual schedules they messed up my DC schedule. But knowing this has been done before too is very disappointing

Was Spanish 3 with TJ or elsewhere?

OP - DC got an "A" in spanish3 over the summer. if they make DC repeat the course, I am worried how it would look on the transcript and of course would hurt GPA I feel terrible for not being able to help. Do parents reach out to counselors at TJ or is it expected for the DC to handle it?

I would understand with COVID and virtual schedules they messed up my DC schedule. But knowing this has been done before too is very disappointing

Anonymous wrote:A TJ freshman parent here in a similar situation. My kid took Helath&PE 9 over summer and had the TJ transition counselor in the loop before and after finishing the course. Now DC has been re-assigned health&pe 9 instead of the elective DC was approved for.

Been there! Last year my DC took journalism as they had no room in CS (the reason he was taking summer PE). Some 30 other kids were in the same boat, and they did not open a new section

Anonymous wrote:OP here - Sorry for the typo in the original post. DC is a sophomore. Took spanish2 as freshman and spanish3 over summer. due to a scheduling glitch they have placed DC in spanish3 again.

In my experience, arguing will not be successful UNLESS you have a paper trail with emails back in March in which you child told the counselor they planned to do Spanish 2 in the summer. Otherwise, they will say they make scheduling decisions in March (implying it was your fault for deciding to do summer school after some theoretical date the admin has, which is a total lie anyway). They do not track summer school at all, and they are very careless. This is also a repeated problem, year after year. Last year, some 30 kids didn't get into CS due to a similar snafu with rising 9th graders taking gym in order to do CS as well as another elective freshman year. The TJ admin didn't plan for it even though they had to sign off on each kid who did a summer class.

OP here - Sorry for the typo in the original post. DC is a sophomore. Took spanish2 as freshman and spanish3 over summer. due to a scheduling glitch they have placed DC in spanish3 again.

Agreed. The spanish 2 at tj is very hard, no the on,I’ve course is a good start. There is no way DC could go into tj spanish 3. They would be asking to drop down very quickly.

My LoCo kid did Latin II freshman year at TJ after doing it in middle school. Their levels are different then other schools

A TJ freshman parent here in a similar situation. My kid took Helath&PE 9 over summer and had the TJ transition counselor in the loop before and after finishing the course. Now DC has been re-assigned health&pe 9 instead of the elective DC was approved for.

Agree Op. TJ isn’t recognizing Spanish II online because Spanish II is not an approved online class.

You much be the parent of a freshman who routed the request the rough the MS counselor? Live and learn. In the future, run all dedications through student services.

In the meantime, Spanish II is a hard class with no weighting. Might to hurt your kid to start the year with some of the material in place.

Spanish 2 at TJ is hard. Only language class harder is Spanish 3. Beginning with Spanish 2 it is totally immersion. No way out of taking it again.

Tj does not accept summer Spanish. Only spanish 3 is allowed as the poster above mentioned correctly. Are you a freshman parent? You absolutely cannot take summer courses that are not TJ courses. They will not let you get some easy A suri nvm the summer that is a hard class during the year. You will have to take Spanish 2 at TJ, or switch to another language.

This doesn’t sound like TJ aylt all. Hat would mess up a transcript. Can’t be correct.

My kid took Spanish at TJ and took Spanish III over the summer because the Spanish sequence is miserable. The rule is: once you leave atJ to take a language online, you can’t come back and take the next level at TJ. So your kid isn’t eligible for Spanish III at TJ. He either needs to take Spanish III through FCPS online or retake the TJ version of Spanish II, which is much, much harder than FCPS online.

Wow. That is crazy.

I would calmly state that it is not reasonable to punish a student for the school's mistake and you expect your child's schedule to be changed.

DC completed spanish2 in summer and was assigned spanish2 again due to a scheduling glitch. They are unable to change it and suggesting a repeat. What do we do?