Need help with upper secondary school and advanced level classes?
We run our advanced courses in cooperation with another school. We have a total of six people for the Spanish advanced course, and at our school alone (500 students) we have three teachers who teach Spanish. My high school advisor recently said the course won't take place because there isn't enough demand (six people are too low), but a physics advanced course with five people and two physics teachers will take place. I don't think she wants to go to the trouble. An old friend had the same problem, so she got together with everyone and complained, and in the end her course did take place after all. What do you think about going again, and what arguments can I put forward?
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Yeah, you should definitely try that. You’ve already put forward an argument. Others would be that you have done it so far and want to complete the subject properly or that Spanish is a rapidly growing world language and moves the tendency from French to Spanish, and that Spanish is often disadvantaged because of the traditional French teacher’s condition, contrary to its importance, and Ergo Spanish students are disadvantaged. The fact that this is – due to an obsolete teaching body – one should have pointed out at the beginning of the choice of Spanish as a field of performance. Say that you are motivated and you see Spanish as a future subject.
Maybe that sounds a little exaggerated. Then you have to adapt it to your taste and your conditions. The fact is, however, that French is often offered preferentially because there are many older French teachers in office who are gradually replaced by Spanish teachers. Spanish had fallen behind due to the dictatorship in Spain and the lack of networking when foreign language teaching was introduced in Germany during the post-war period. Today, however, Spanish is only a mouse click or radio hit away and there are 600 million Spanish speakers, even Spanish has more native speakers than English. Trend increasing. Spanish is also the foreign language No. 1 in English-speaking countries and there are 60 million Spanish speakers alone in the USA.
You can’t ask more than politely. So you should find a formula that works convincingly without sounding too demanding.
I would certainly bring the comparison with physics – LK. Because that is simply not just right!
Perhaps one could also argue in the direction that natural sciences are mostly man-dominated and languages are usually argued by women (the issue of gender equality) and in the direction of appreciation of the humanities that often come too short.