Quote:91% of American High Schools still offer a foreign language,
But HOW is it done? Those cutbacks referenced earlier mean, in many cases, that foreign language studies are taken only 3 periods in a week - 45 minutes less time for attendance and other administrative tasks which are dumped on the teachers. When my kids were in high school they had gym - two times a week and their language class the other 3. Needless to say, neither of them knows anything about those languages. I can't even remember which one took Spanish and which took French.
