Help a Teacher Out: Second-Language Competency Testing

Miss Profe teaches in an NE independent school:

I am a career middle and high school MFL/Spanish ToC (Teacher of Color). I have been teaching for 14years.

She blogs at It's a Hardknock Teacher's Life, and today's question is:

I have been struggling with whether or not to implement competency testing with my students. A fellow Spanish teacher at another school does this. In her opinion, there are certain things we teach students as part of their foreign language education that without exception must be mastered.

Go read the post and give your two cents.