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Board to review junior‑high Spanish credit pilot, adjustments to elective schedule
Summary
The committee reviewed adding a 0.125 high‑school credit Spanish course at junior high (Miss Martinez to teach) and a 0.25 Spanish offering across 7th/8th grades; members discussed transcript credit, GPA treatment, and how the changes link into high‑school Spanish sequencing.
Staff presented a proposal to add a 0.125 high‑school‑credit Spanish offering at the junior‑high level and to restructure electives so that some grades receive additional Spanish exposure.
A staff member explained how the proposal would work: Miss Martinez will teach a small credit (0.125) for selected students and the program is intended to create a pipeline into high‑school Spanish. On transcript treatment, staff clarified the class will be recorded ("Spanish 1 P") but will not count toward GPA in the same way as high‑school courses. "It does not count towards their GPA," a staff member noted, and the credit will follow high‑school curriculum standards so students can continue Spanish in high school.
Members discussed scheduling tradeoffs, noting 6th graders will have math lab and 7th graders will still have options among health, art, computers or math lab; staff said they will refine scheduling and selection criteria and return the details for board review.
