Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?

• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They tried teaching Spanish in my elementary school with videos that no one paid attention to. A lot of schools don’t even go that far.

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• hraegsvelmir@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Even for a wealthier state like New York, often thought of as more progressive on stuff like this, the actual requirements are a joke. You can just take a year of a language in 8th grade, pass the local test that meets the curriculum’s criteria, and never touch it again all the way to graduation from high school. At least when I was in school, they would at least try to dissuade you from not continuing it at least one more year to get on track for some sort of special diploma, but you could just opt out if your parents gave the okay to your guidance counselor.

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  • ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wow thats honestly pretty crazy to me. To me this is like learning Americans don’t learn geometry in school or something. Language learning should be an essential part of any public education system 

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    • Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh boy don’t look up American required math education

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      • ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You guys don’t learn geometry either? 

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• apepi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Generally not till highschool or college.

  So you’re old enough that it doesn’t come easy and generally no one retains much without a lot of effort.

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  • ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I see

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