<p>Alright, my guidance counselor notified me that I will not be able to take Spanish 1 next semester because the class is over capacity, juniors and seniors are the ones considered more important in terms of classes needed for graduation, and the principal is taking all of the sophomores out of every level of Spanish (all the way through 3). I asked about doing it online and she said that it our school can't offer it online because we have a teacher who teaches the subject. So I told my guidance counselor to put me in Honors Forensics for the time being until something is resolved.</p>
<p>The reason why I am trying to keep a spot in Spanish 1 is that I am not only behind of where I planned to be, but I am trying to go this amazing boarding school called the North Carolina School of Science and Math where there is a foreign language placement test. Everyone that I have talked to said that Intro Spanish there is too easy for a high school foreign language.</p>
<p>I know that Honors Forensics looks good and absolutely nobody but people with 3.0+ GPAs can get in because it is rigorous (it's through that wonderful boarding school I mentioned earlier through videoconferencing). Alot of people that have taken it at my school said that it was a fun experience and only required basic biology knowledge and some Algebra 2 topics. Whereas, the Spanish teacher can be a real butthole sometimes and is real annoying (he's my homeroom teacher and I don't know how I can spend 90 minutes with him if I can't sit in there for 5 minutes).</p>
<p>Should I stay in the Honors Forensics or move into Spanish 1 if something is resolved by December (the end of our 1st semester)? Plus, if you all have any other suggestions, then please tell me.</p>
<p>What the hell? Even kids that were going on to Spanish 3 were just kicked out? I’d call the most important person in your school district and complain ASAP.</p>
<p>Just take Spanish online. Spanish online is 2x easier than real life Spanish. My friends all completed their Spanish 2 and 3 courses in 5 months, and they admitted to lagging it.</p>
<p>@CSIHSIS: Not everyone through 3, just the sophomores. I talked to several administrators and they all told me “Juniors and seniors get all of the first spots on all classes required for graduation.”</p>
<p>@CheesePuffPoppin: I was planning on doing Spanish 1 and 2 this coming summer if things work out right. My county’s online provider is through California and the classes are very easy. My cousin completed three classes in a semester by just spend 30 minutes on each during class and doing another 20 minutes on each at home.</p>
<p>I’d still complain. Any Juniors or Seniors that haven’t even taken Spanish 1 or any first course in a language is obviously an idiot and they deserve to not graduate in the first place :P</p>
<p>@CSIHSIS: I will complain, but I’ll probably stay in the Forensics unless they do something drastic and mess that up too. I feel you about Spanish 1 and juniors and seniors. I hope that after this last class with the old graduation requirements get out, my school will be normal. For some reason, NC changes graduation requirements every so often just because.</p>
<p>^thats kind of insensitive about the Jr and Sr thing. Sometimes they arent able to take that elective because they may be taking an AP class or Honors class as an elective, or other circumstances. That happened to me as well as other high achieving students at my school.</p>
<p>Wow that’s bull. Your counselor should give you those classes considering the over crowding issue. I am also from NC and I am in AP bio because it conflicted with another class and I still got the online class even though it is taught at my school.</p>
<p>^I took an online class at my local community college. I got Spanish I and II done in eight weeks over the summer. It was super easy too. I think I would prefer taking it online than having to take two years of language, plus I got honors credit for it:)</p>
<p>@hannahj65: But it is true. If you were smart enough to take off the wall electives 9th and 10th grade years (I’ve seen many transcripts with off the wall electives on them) and you know that you need 2 foreign languages to go to a UNC system school, you should get them out of the way to make space for everyone else behind you. But, my school does a horrible job of informing people early (but it’s also parents too) about graduation requirements. </p>
<p>@dfire28: It is bull. I hate my school with a passion.</p>
<p>see the problem is, people are selfish. They don’t think that way (I wish they did). Oh I need to do my foreign lang credits so that other kids can do them.</p>
<p>I guess I may be underestimating the problem in NC. In so cal there are more spanish classes than there are english classes lol. It seems like everyones first language down here is spanish so they do it freshmen yr.</p>
<p>@hannahj65: I think that it only happens in schools in the middle of nowhere. You can look up Warren County Schools NC and see that our schools need some love. Things like this only happen where the students and parents don’t care about or value education. They just care about graduating. Where I live, there are a lot of people from up north (general saying is that they have snobbier attitudes and demeanors than Southerners, even though this can be false in some cases) and a lot of people who graduated from my school stay around. If the parents were D students, then their kids will be D students unless the parents had some kind of epiphany.</p>