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There are MANY middle schools that don't offer foreign language in Wake County. Many in high income areas. We've been told it's about lack of resources, which is frustrating when some schools such as Ligon teach 5-6 foreign languages, yet others don't even get a semester of Spanish. It's an unfortunate distribution of resources.
There are MANY middle schools that don't offer foreign language in Wake County. Many in high income areas. We've been told it's about lack of resources, which is frustrating when some schools such as Ligon teach 5-6 foreign languages, yet others don't even get a semester of Spanish. It's an unfortunate distribution of resources.
It was my understanding that the principle gets to choose how to spend certain resources. I would think they'd be pushing for at least Spanish...if not the wide variety that a magnet offers.
(Also, in a school like Ligon, the language electives are often taught by teachers that have primary teaching responsibility in other fields.....so there isn't the extra expense of hiring a specific language teacher. For example, my daughter's Latin teacher (awesome woman!) is actually a 6th grade language arts teacher most of the day...she teaches one period of Latin (which was enough to cover all who signed up for it.)
We were told byt he principal that there were not enough language teachers in the county to put one in every school, so they balance out resources (teachers) by area.
Our base elementary school has spanish, but not the middle school :-(.
We were told byt he principal that there were not enough language teachers in the county to put one in every school, so they balance out resources (teachers) by area.
Our base elementary school has spanish, but not the middle school :-(.
I can see teacher availability being an issue as well. Sigh...no easy answers for that one....just time and money.
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