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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meh. Unpopular opinion but most of these kids aren’t going to learn enough Mandarin to do anything with it anyway. In fact most kids don’t learn enough of a second language in the US (in school) for it to be useful. [/quote]

None of them has a chance of it becoming "useful" if they don't learn it in the first place.

But there is so much more education involved in learning a language than it being useful for a job or something.  Grammar, vocabulary, memorization, geography, history, comparative arts, literature, and culture, etc etc. are all part of learning a language.  And it's good for the brain.

Everyone learning Spanish is what's "meh." It's a good language to learn, but it hardly makes us educated in aggregate.[/quote]

You can smell the Maga on you a mile away. [/quote]

What an odd response.  Just in case your reading comprehension is the issue, note that I did not say learning Spanish was "meh."  What I said is that *everyone* learning the same, one foreign language -- ie, Spanish -- is bad.  There should be diversity in the languages we study or else, in aggregate, we are a narrow-minded community.[/quote]

Spanish and Italian are about as similar as languages can be. It makes no sense for DCPS to be offering both in parallel, particularly at the exclusion of the likes of Mandarin. Yet here we are.[/quote]

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