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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your premise is wrong and demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of Americans, our education system, and geography. There might be Americans who think learning another language is “bad” but that’s not really the issue. [/quote] +1 this is an obvious strawman. I've lived in every kind of community in America, and never once encountered someone who thought speaking another language was a bad thing. Sometimes they thought it was irrelevant to their lives, or a waste of school time, but never a [i]bad[/i] thing in itself. It's not just in DC that elementary schools with a focus on foreign language are among the most sought-after. Here's a better question: Why do American parents and schools focus on sports to the exclusion of learning, and twist themselves into rhetorical knots to justify the intellectual hamstringing of our kids? [/quote]
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