A quick update for you all... the first quarter of school just ended and my daughter got an A in French.

We have started looking at colleges and learned from one college representative that even though in our county the foreign language courses offered in middle school/junior high are more difficult than high school as the students must pass two semester exams instead of just one year end final and "In order for students to earn high school credit in middle school, the school must provide the same course as in high school, including the use of the same curriculum and high school instructional resources, and use the same high school exam." the college would NOT accept ANY high school credit classes taken in middle school. They stated that she would need to take 4 years of the language IN high school in order for it to count on her application!!