WESTFORD ACADEMY Override Procedure
Sometimes parents/guardians/students choose to reject placement recommendations and request placement in a more demanding level. There are risks in doing so. Specifically: A student who does poorly in a more advanced class may weaken his/her record. Sometimes, difficulties in one course generate difficulties in others. To keep up with the class, the students may require more individual help than the teacher can reasonably be expected to provide. The demands of an advanced curriculum do not allow teachers to accommodate to the pace of a student who is misplaced. The teacher cannot provide individual tutoring. We do want students to challenge themselves but sometimes those challenges may bring grades (such as a C) that are not acceptable to the student and/or parent.
Foreign Language study at Westford Academy progresses through a four-year curriculum sequence based on the Massachusetts Foreign Languages Framework. Movement along the sequence is determined by performance on proficiency based assessments and teacher recommendation. Most four-year colleges require a minimum of two years of language study at the high school, and competitive colleges require more.
Students of French, German, or Spanish work toward proficiency in speaking, reading, writing, and understanding the language. Study of culture is integral to our program, and it is embedded in all we do, helping keep the connective thread to the past ever present, and helping students recognize connections to the world beyond themselves.
Students of Latin concentrate on reading and understanding Latin and gaining an appreciation for the continuous influence of Latin language, literature, art, architecture, scientific and mathematical thought, and values on western civilization.
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