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To: Max Combined
My daughter is studying chemical engineering at Rice, but she went to community college at 15.

Kudos to your daughter for all her hard work, and here's wishing her success in her career.

Not everyone can afford to bypass free high school classes to attend community college in lieu of HS. And in HS the student has extended time to concentrate on a discipline, for ex., nine months to master a foreign language vs. a three-month course in college. There's no way that a first year college language course (ex., Spanish I) is equivalent to a full nine months of study in HS. This is the best way to give a student a thorough grounding in disciplines such as foreign languages.

I can testify to this fact. I studied two foreign languages in high school, then started a third from scratch at college, and nothing beats the intense language study at the HS level.

113 posted on 01/08/2005 5:24:55 PM PST by Ciexyz (I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie)
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To: Ciexyz

"nothing beats the intense language study at the HS level."

Except going and living in a country where they speak that language and very little English. There is nothing like a long haired dictionary, in my experience. It is all a matter of motivation.


115 posted on 01/08/2005 5:53:30 PM PST by Max Combined
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