It doesn’t make sense for Spanish to be the default language in American public schools.
>B-but we need to be able to communicate with our immigrant neighbors!!!
Very few students will achieve that level of fluency in Spanish, or any foreign language. What makes more sense is prioritizing reading skills in a foreign language so that students will leave school with at least a limited ability to engage with foreign language literature and news. And if reading ability is to be prioritized over conversational fluency, French makes a lot more sense because French literature holds a more important place in culture, and France today is a more important, more powerful country than any Spanish speaking country. French news media will give students a better look at European affairs than any Spanish publication.

>>24476809 (OP)
>It doesn’t make sense for Spanish to be the default language in American public schools.
isn't it English?

>>24476809 (OP)
>It doesn’t make sense for Spanish to be the default language in American public schools.
It isn't.

>>24476809 (OP)
This thread is not about books or literature but I'm Polish and I've always wondered why Americans learn the language of their Gastarbeiter underclass of helots. The only Germans who learn Polish are turboautismos looking for a hobby or sex tourists

>>24476809 (OP)
By that logic, there's no point in teaching them French because "very few students will achieve reading comprehension in French."
Spanish is a much more useful language in the US. There are several times a year I find myself in a situation where knowing better Spanish would've come in handy.

Just teach the children Ancient Greek and Classical Latin.

>>24476809 (OP)
Spanish is the default FOREIGN LANGUAGE elective. But it's more useful than anything else.
With Spanish:
>get better tacos
>overhear foreigners and see if they're trying to pull a fast one on you
>enjoyment of trash TV
>charm that spiny Latina GF

With French:
>you might be better equipped if you decide to visit France one day

>>24477098
French is still more useful in your tally (nobody should be interacting with squatamalans to get a fast one pulled) and you get to read a bunch of great old literature with it

>>24477072
O sabes español porque quieres aprenderlo o simplemente no lo sabes. La gente que ve al español como un idioma útil en vez de uno agradable nunca tendrá la suficiente paciencia como para aprenderlo.
(I wrote this in Spanish because you don't speak it, knowing that anything I write in Spanish will be useless for you.)

>>24476809 (OP)
pretty much

all students shall learn msa arabic
inshallah