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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges don't care, but you're an idiot if you take a language that isn't Spanish.[/quote] My kids who took Russian certainly aren't idiots. Maybe you're talking about yourself?[/quote] A lot of good that’s gonna do them since Americans can’t even travel to Russia. [/quote] The UN, State Dept, and intel agencies have LOTS of job openings for people who know Russian or Mandarin. As an example, NSA only wants them to be able to listen/read and translate; NSA explicitly does not want their people to go to any high risk country. NGIC in Charlottesville and NASIC in Ohio also want those people. Langley HS in FCPS has a full Russian language program as a first foreign language. [b]Every year there are students who transfer to Langley HS from some other FCPS HS in order to study Russian.[/b] It can be a great move career wise. Same applies to Mandarin Chinese, which some schools in MCPS offer (e.g., Potomac’s ES in MCPS has a Mandarin Chinese immersion program that people fight and claw to get their DC into). [/quote] In our Middle School traditionally kids are transfers to Langley “to study Russian” when they don’t get into TJ. 25 years living here and I’ve only known kids to use Russian as the excuse not to have to go to Chantilly, Westfield, or South Lakes. [/quote] DP. My kids attended Langley (in boundary, not transfers) and took Russian. They all went on to continue Russian in college and have used it in various ways in their careers. It was one of the best and most useful classes they ever took. You trying to speak for 25 years worth of kids you don't even know is a really bad look. [/quote]
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