Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion Ack! HS dropped a needed class-- what to do?

You don't have online high schools available there? We have an online high school that offers all kinds of classes here, to the area school districts, and they work with the schools for payment and credits. If the student is attending a regular school but taking certain courses through the e-school, the e-school gets its money from the state funding provided to the regular school, and the student gets regular credit for the courses. If it's supplemental to the regular school schedule, you have to pay for it, but the student still gets extra credits, I believe.

I think what made it difficult for my classmates was that a large portion of the test was hearing conversations between native speakers, then having to answer questions about it. They hadn't really internalized enough of the language to actually follow a conversation held a normal speed. My first 4 years of french instruction were nearly all verbal. We didn't write until the fourth year. Here in Texas all they did was write.. They rarely spoke it or heard the teacher speak it (plus her accent was atrocious!)

A good year of one on one tutoring would probably do it for your dd.

Nautigal, we're with Connections. They take the attitude that if they offer the class, we're stuck with their offerings (as awful or poorly supported as they might be in pragmatic terms) and they won't pay a dime for external ANYTHING.

Local schools won't work with Connections to seat kids for just one class because it's completely uncompensated (can't really blame them, actually).

Puts kids in the middle, though, if they object to, say, only having a "teacher" for 32 hours a year in a foreign language class. I think that it probably goes without saying that if my hunch is correct, we'll see more like 10-12 hours this year in particular. The last teacher was very efficient and very caring-- thus the 32 hours. (About one a week, with a few missing weeks at the end of each semester).

Epoh, I think that DD actually has a VERY good ear. She was picking up conversational French after just a long weekend in the country-- Parisian French, no less, and in overheard conversations. She hasn't ever had enough French that it should have been possible. She also was more than capable of eavesdropping on German tourists throughout the UK and France while we were there, which was sometimes deeply amusing. Okay-- total tangent and adult-swim here, but you should have SEEN how red she turned when she realized just WHAT that couple was speculating about in the Irish National museum as they were looking at breastplate decorations and bronze seals, many of which just... happen.... to be shaped like, er-- well, like "adult" toys. AHEM. Yes, she picked all of that conversation up just fine. (Of course she did...)


Her written skills are not very strong, but her listening and reading skills, not too bad.

Well now, there's education and then there's education! That was a very good lesson in the usefulness of foreign languages.

I'm sorry it just seems like such a complicated system. I hope you can work it out but I hope our system stays simple.

Would FLVHS work? Obviously not ideal, because it's online, but they're cheap, and would provide a transcript. Just trying to find alternatives to "stuck with Connections."

FLVS has no German but they have Latin.