Our hs quickly added Arabic, but the French teacher was fluent and, at the time, there were grants to support this. A trial class was immediately full. Then they hired a part timer.
But what lang is OP so interested in and would it fill a defensible gap (eg, hs with Spanish but no French?) Or this is just what OP wants?
Why can’t it be an outside course online? Why does it have to be for credit? If you study online, there are ways to show colleges your mastery.
Presumably, the OP wants the kid to be able to use the classes to fulfill the HS FL requirement.
Right. But it suggests setting up an official new language is about making it easier for him. Maybe he sees this particular other lang as an easy A? Maybe he’s already familiar? Why break the mold. just for him?
If OP wants to show a variety of lang interests/skills, online is fine for one extra. Can show motivation, etc.
On CC, this is rarely about just meeting hs grad requirements.
I am so curious what language it is! If it’s so rare that it’s not offered locally, it’s unlikely they could generate enough interest. One consolation might be that learning any foreign language helps with learning the process of learning a foreign language so it won’t be a complete waste of time to take what the school already offers.
When I was in hs, there was a suggestion that Polish be offered in our schools. Many people in the area were Polish and people wanted to get the public involved.
Unfortunately, there weren’t qualify people to teach the language. Most who spoke it did not have any degree and certainly not a teaching degree.
That has been the issue in trying to have full immersion schools in Spanish too. There just aren’t enough qualified teachers who can teach all the subjects in Spanish. Spanish in Spanish is fine, but bio and chem and math? They had too much turn over.
Most of the immersion-type school programs that I have heard of were elementary school programs, presumably due to less specialized subject knowledge required to teach K-6 level stuff than high school level stuff.
One of my kids was interested in Finnish. No, we are not Finns. She attended Concordia Language Villages camps, including 2 summers for HS credit. Her HS wouldn’t take the credits, so she took one of the languages the HS offered in HS, too. It turned out to be a nice and slightly unusual EC on her college apps, since it was an unusual language.
D learned that 2 years of world language was required in HS and she was not interested in any of the languages offered, but if she had to learn a language-Japanese, which was not offered. The HS school does allow students to take classes online for credit and provided where students had taken online classes before. I looked up the online class offerings, found Japanese and she was able to start receiving HS credits as an 8th grader, put in her 2 years and done. Her HS and online HS worked together well and I was kept informed. The process was smooth and we did not pay any extra. Japanese does show up as HS credit on her HS transcript. If you HS does not allow students to take online HS classes, you could look into getting the school to allow for students to take online classes for high school credit. Even if students are not interested in the same language as your student, there may be other offerings that students may want to take that are not offered at your school, or do not work due to scheduling. Some schools may be more open to it than others. Just an idea-worked well for us.