[quote=walterwhite]ask this question; where do you think your kids would develop more at age 17 in terms of self-reliance, education and general boredom levels. senior year with spanish IV at great oaks, or a year abroad at some mexican high school with low test scrores?[/quote]

scaredy, having personally spent at least 16 semester units in a CC language lab talking to a cassette recorder and STILL not able to utter most complete sentences correctly, I would say that the Mexican “immersion” program is the way to go. I believe that if thrown into an environment where Spanish skills are needed for day-to-day living, one can pick it up very quickly. School “test scores” have nothing to do with this.