Please, please make a decision based on your sons needs, and not on future college admissions chances.
What do the experts who diagnosed your child advise you to do? That is the only point of view that matters.
If you say your child is doing well in every subject except Spanish , trust your child. Let your child know you care about more than just a grade in a class. There are always alternatives . Students go outside the box all the time. There are thousands of colleges out there, surely there will be room for your child at one of them !
Good luck to you as you dig into his diagnosis and figure out how best to support him. Make the decision ASAP to drop the class and be done with this misery.
@powercropper please read #53.
Also, posts 21 and 48. You can see what we did in more detail.
So sorry. Please excuse my post, I thought I was reading it all but obviously I blew past a lot of posts. I am recovering from surgery and still on pain meds. We will blame it on the drugs and I will try to do a more thorough job of reading every post next time!
Sorry that I skipped through most of the above other than 21 and 48. D2 was diagnosed by a psychologist as a severe dyslexic at the end of 1st grade when she was completely unable to decipher words. By means of a full summer and following year of private tutoring, she was able to learn strategies for decoding words and by 5th grade she was reading at grade level. It was a fantastic success until she started taking Spanish in 7th grade when we saw a complete inability to decode the words. As the problem grew worse, we took her back to the psychologist in 8th grade who told us that essentially the strategies she learned for reading in English were inapplicable to a foreign language with different word structures. She would basically have to go through another round of dyslexia training to learn to decode Spanish words. American Sign language was suggested as an alternative that might meet foreign language requirements. Neither Chinese, Korean nor Japanese is offered at her school, but I can imagine that these might also be decent fall-backs.
We ended up finessing the problem in high school by putting her in Latin for two years. Our thought process was that it has some commonality with English in word structures and we initially planned for her to take it pass/fail. However, the real success for her was that the teacher was completely undemanding and it turned into a project-based easy letter grade. Not a repeatable solution for others, but it worked for her.
We have seen the blessings of dyslexia in certain aspects of her personality and talents. When it comes to some of these academic areas, foreign language in particular, it can present a formidable challenge. Our daughter worked her way through it and hopefully all of your kids are too.