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does it annoy you when schools teache instrument/choir instead of science?[/quote]
Nope, because at least at my kids' schools, those are treated as extras meeting once a week, maybe twice. Language is a more intensive exercise. [/quote]
So you're against foreign language not Mandarin/Chinese?[/quote]
Yes, my criticism applies to all foreign language study, not just Mandarin, although it is particularly applicable to Mandarin.  As made clear in other posts, I'm not "against" foreign language, but rather critical of the mandated time spent on learning foreign languages. [/quote]

How about the mandated time spent on learning math, science, English, or social studies? Are you critical of that too? I've certainly never used ox-redox reactions in my life; or had to solve a pair of simultaneous equations; or been asked my opinions of the motivations of the nurse vs. the friar in Romeo and Juliet.[/quote]

Some people are against everything. There was a poster last year against fiction (Shakespeare and Greek Myth in particular). There are also "experts" who claim that if we abandon algebra as a requirement for high school graduation, we would raise the education achievement of minorities. Thankfully, these people are not in charge of the education policy, yet. [/quote]

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