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[quote=Anonymous](If I get there before you, then that next foreign language, in addition to Spanish, is going to be French, not Chinese ;-)[/quote]

The Census Bureau forecasts that almost 25% of the U.S. population will be Latino by 2050, making Spanish a pragmatic language to learn.  In global terms, about 1/3 of the world speaks Chinese or Hindi.  Arabic, Russian, and Japanese are the "hard languages" that open up worlds of career options for those few Americans who speak them.  French, by contrast, may be a beautiful language but it is almost completely useless (trust me on that - that's my main second language).  If you are an activist parent interested in shaping options for foreign language classes in a Capitol Hill school, please consider the impact of your actions on all the families that will rely on whatever school you are working to shape. There are only so many classrooms, only so many languages that will be offered in any given academic setting.  I, for one, would be far less interested in a school that offers French than in one that offers any one of the other choices mentioned above.   [/quote]

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