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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We chose based on which program was known to have better teachers at our HS. In our case, French. [/quote]

Our HS can’t find any French teachers, so kids have to take it online. Guess we’re not elite enough.[/quote]

I don’t understand why people think French is elite.   France is a tiny country.  Belgium has some French communities, Haiti is French speaking, a lot of African countries have French as their official language.    Canada where Quebec hung on to French with all their might but England still managed to take away the French language from many areas.  England colonized Canada and mandated English.

Why would French be relevant enough for children to learn it?   [/quote]

When I was in middle school I only had a choice of French or Spanish.  I chose based on liking French food and the sound of the French language better, and it was literally each student's choice, I don't remember anyone saying their parents chose for them.  But there was nothing elite about it, that was just the choices we had and I'd say students split fairly evenly in which language they chose.  In my high school I don't remember which classes more people took, I just know the French classes were very full (but I think the Spanish ones are too).  I wonder if my high school offers other languages now... I am curious, I'm going to look into that.

But no one had an attitude like "Oh, only puny little peasants take _____________ language".  It was just whichever one you were interested in or whichever one had more open seats if you didn't care.[/quote]

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