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Originally Posted by SunKneeMarie
Around here, in order to graduate from a public high school, kids take spanish in elementary school and are required to take a minimum of 2 years of a foreign language in high school. 3 years in our district if they want to earn the Distinguished Program degree. Not sure how fluent that makes them, as like any other subject, retention is up to the course taker... but the requirement to learn a language is already there... before Obama ever got to their kids....
Maybe I'm missing the "fear" parents have about their kids learning a language...??
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yep, learned how to count to one hundred and knew most of the fruit/vegetables and other basic words in second grade..... Spanish, German, or French was required in 2nd grade and there weren't alot of Germans or Frenchies around so Spanish class was a no brainer for me...... then we moved to Oklahoma and I had to learn how to speak Okie......so I was almost tri-lingual by the time I was 9
....... second language classes were not required at all in Oklahoma or Kansas