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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This AGAIN?

The bottom line is that you can get into a decent to good college without taking four years of a language in high school, but the very good and best colleges want to see four years, and why not? Foreign language is important. It’s a complicated world. Speaking a second language is an important thing. It’s a lot more important than a lot of the other bullshit classes that you have to take in high school. Why is everybody so afraid of foreign language? [/quote]

Languages are particularly susceptible to scheduling problems and teacher shortages, both of which tend to arise on short notice. Also because of the teacher problem a lot of high school language classes are, in fact, bs, and the kids know it and resent spending their time on it. [/quote]

Nobody on this thread is complaining that they don’t want their kids taking languages in high school because there are teachers shortages or scheduling problems.   They just don’t want to take a language course.  End of story. [/quote]

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