Why don;t most of us Americans only need like one foreign language to pass high school? Why not make it mandatory for like 3 or 4 languages?Would that not give us the upper hand when traveling?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world · 17 days ago

Why don;t most of us Americans only need like one foreign language to pass high school? Why not make it mandatory for like 3 or 4 languages?Would that not give us the upper hand when traveling?

ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 17 days ago

English is the defacto global language and I think you’d be surprised how many Americans never leave the US, and how significantly fewer never leave North America.

Learning languages would be great, but there are lots of other things that the US education system has been failing at which are arguably far more important…