My DS is also signed up for next school year. He can not wait to start.

Yes, I can see that this would be very hard. But for others the "macron fact" may be an important fact to consider switching between Latin providers.

This pretty much was the case of my DS at Lone Pine. The fact, that you can retake every vocabulary quiz as many times as you want and the only highest grade counts, did not really help to motivate him to study for a long term memory. Yes, the grade did not reflect the learning at Lone Pine either. I think that with Lukeion the grade is much more reflective of what is actually in the student's head :-)

We have been in a similar situation at Lone Pine. My son started very young (5th grade), did amazingly well the first year (Gold Medal on NLE), and then started having some troubles mid year in 200. We agreed to stop, and will start over at Lukeion with Latin 1 in the fall ( 7th grade). He is excited that Lukeion does not use macrons, (Lone Pine does). I believe that young age and maturity is one reason why my kid struggled a bit with the higher level understanding. That and the learning approach at Lone Pine.

I would absolutely love class like this for my 12 year old DS. As a homeschooler in our area, I find it impossible to join any debate club, they all seem to be school centered. Please offer the class in the fall :-)

Third! Cal Newport would be great! :hurray:

Would love to know as well. :-)

Second Ray Leven, my son is taking Spanish 200 Honors and it is great!

It is a first season for my son, and he is part of a rookie team. It seems quite challenging, but then again we have nothing to compare it to. Yes, they are struggling as well. Despite that, I have to say, that I am impressed how much learning DS picked up from FTC since September. It is really great.

I sent you a pm. I have 11 DS very interested in science.

Thanks JanetC, that makes a lot of sense. My initial thoughts were that he would have Foreign language out of the way and that would free up some time to take other classes. But I don't want to close any doors on him, that is why I am checking into this. I am very new to the HS planning and any info is very appreciated. Yes, that is a good idea to do. I can speak from my own experience, as I can hardly speak any German anymore...."use it or loose it". Fortunately we live in Florida and here are lot of opportunities to speak Spanish. However, Luckymama, you brought up a good point with scheduling and keeping it up if you really don't have to, and it is something to keep in mind while contemplating the "big plan". Thank you for breaking it down for me. It is good to know that there are options for post AP language study. Just out of curiosity, Lukeion has AP Latin as a year 4? Lone Pine AP has it as 5th year....Interesting. Your son's independent Greek study sounds interesting :-) I could totally envision something like this for my DS down the road. Meanwhile, I spoke to Princeton's admission (one of the school that has 4 years of FL, and actually returned my call already): and the admission lady said if the student achieves mastery and it is shown with a high grade on a test (AP) or if the student runs out of options to continue studying the language (higher classes not available at the school), the university does not require the whole 4 years. I explained my son's situation with the two languages, and she said that that would be totaly fine, if he does not continue FL during the all 4 years of HS and just finishes with AP levels when he does. :-)

On Stanford website I found the following: " Stanford students are to complete one year of college-level study of a foreign language (or the equivalent). How do I meet the language requirement? By being placed into a second-year course (or beyond) through on-campus placement testing or By completing the third course in a first-year sequence or By presenting an AP score of 4 or 5 in Chinese, French, German, or Spanish or an SATII of 630 in Chinese, German, Italian, Korean, Latin, or Spanish; of 640 in French; of 620 in Japanese; or of 540 in Hebrew. Or by presenting an IB High Level score of 5. " Based on this, the good AP score of 4-5 would be sufficient to even get out of the one year FL study during college. So I am reasoning that it may be sufficient for HS as well? Am I on the limb here?

Thank you Kiana, that makes a lot of sense. I love that idea of continuing. My DS can not wait to read the actual works in Latin, and although I am sure that some of that will be done in the future years at Lone Pine, he would love to continue like this on his own under a supervision. I will check with his teacher, maybe she has some prior experience with this already.

That is what I was thinking as well. DS's current plan is to finish both (Spanish and Latin) to AP, which would mean 5 years for each. But only portion of it would be done in the actual highschool years, althought both are at a highschool level, from outside sources. Message has been left at a university, so hoping to have some answer soon. Everybody's input is very much appreciated. I see it is true, one can always count on the Hive ;-)

I did not realized that there are continuing options to study foreign language after AP level and AP test. That is a great idea, and I will have to check more into that. I am assuming this would be done at College as Dual enrollment. Do these types of classes still count as Foreign language?