Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 15:19     Subject: Rotation or Spanish in middle school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Top colleges want to see 4 years of language in HS. Our kids each started foreign language in 6th, and if we had to do it over again, we wouldn't do this - let them take the elective (I think what you are calling rotation).

The foreign language teachers are notiously bad, better they deal with it for 6 years than 7


Not if they get to AP, which they could do in junior year by starting language in 6th grade.


At our middle, that just gets you to AP in 12th. Spanish and French 1a is 6th grade and 1b in 7th. Our middle no longer allows 6th and 7th graders to do 1ab in one year.


Ugh, so dumb.
This is because they don't want to offer 3 in MS?


I don’t know. But I actually like the option. I think the slower pace is better for most 6th graders and allows more conversational practice time.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 14:52     Subject: Rotation or Spanish in middle school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You have to take language in sixth grade to be eligible to apply for IB programs in high school. That’s why we did it, even knowing the problems it can cause in high school that are identified above.

So like MCPS to push kids into class in sixth grade without thinking it through ! Two years of foreign language should be sufficient for IB applicants, and then the problem would be eased.


100% false


Unless it's at that crazy school that doesn't let 7th graders take 1a/1b


My middle school was the same. You don't take 1a/1b in the same year. My kid also had rotation of arts with a language starting in 6th grade.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 11:05     Subject: Rotation or Spanish in middle school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You have to take language in sixth grade to be eligible to apply for IB programs in high school. That’s why we did it, even knowing the problems it can cause in high school that are identified above.

So like MCPS to push kids into class in sixth grade without thinking it through ! Two years of foreign language should be sufficient for IB applicants, and then the problem would be eased.


100% false


Unless it's at that crazy school that doesn't let 7th graders take 1a/1b
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 11:03     Subject: Rotation or Spanish in middle school
Anonymous wrote:You have to take language in sixth grade to be eligible to apply for IB programs in high school. That’s why we did it, even knowing the problems it can cause in high school that are identified above.

So like MCPS to push kids into class in sixth grade without thinking it through ! Two years of foreign language should be sufficient for IB applicants, and then the problem would be eased.


100% false
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 11:03     Subject: Rotation or Spanish in middle school
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Top colleges want to see 4 years of language in HS. Our kids each started foreign language in 6th, and if we had to do it over again, we wouldn't do this - let them take the elective (I think what you are calling rotation).

The foreign language teachers are notiously bad, better they deal with it for 6 years than 7


Not if they get to AP, which they could do in junior year by starting language in 6th grade.


At our middle, that just gets you to AP in 12th. Spanish and French 1a is 6th grade and 1b in 7th. Our middle no longer allows 6th and 7th graders to do 1ab in one year.


Ugh, so dumb.
This is because they don't want to offer 3 in MS?
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2025 11:00     Subject: Rotation or Spanish in middle school
You have to take language in sixth grade to be eligible to apply for IB programs in high school. That’s why we did it, even knowing the problems it can cause in high school that are identified above.

So like MCPS to push kids into class in sixth grade without thinking it through ! Two years of foreign language should be sufficient for IB applicants, and then the problem would be eased.