Should the languages of the Americas.. English and Spanish be mandatorily taught in U.S public schools?
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I thought they already were?? We learned Spanish along with English when I went to school.
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We'd have to add Portuguese and French to that mix, since they are also spoken in the Americas (French in Quebec and Portuguese in Brazil). Might as well add German to that mix, since we do so much business with them... and Japanese and Chinese for the same reason. Can't forget Korean, Hindi and even Swahili... Oh, and there are the Native American languages, like Navajo... My point is that once something is mandated to favor one ethnic group, it opens the floodgates to mandating the same for all ethnic groups.
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No Spanish should be taught in countries where Spanish is the predominate language. English should be taught in countries where English is the predominate language. There's nothing wrong with teaching a second language as an elective, but it should be secondary to the primary education. Encouraging Spanish in the U.S., by making it mandatory in schools will only further alienate the divide among English & Spanish speaking cultures. Spanish speaking students should be immersed in the language of the country in which they're living to better integrate into society.
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English, of course. Spanish, no.
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In Cali you are required to take some foreign language and you have to take English everywhere at least in the US.
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English? Obviously Spanish? Nope. Where I live up near the CANADIAN border, we have VERY few native Spanish speakers; they are out numbered by the (still rare) traveling Quebecois, and they speak French If we go for that, what about Portuguese? That is spoken in a few nations in South America. Wait, we have more Chinese people here in my area than Hispanics; teach Cantonese and Mandarin too! Of course, my state is about 98% whiter-than-Wonder-bread. I mean, we have more crackers here than a Saltine factory. Certain parts of the country (like mine) have all of the racial diversity of a skinhead convention. For whatever reason, minorities don't move up here except into the BIG cities.
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English, duh and most public schools teach Spanish as I believe there is a foreign language requirement for high school graduation.
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