I can hardly wait for your Father's Day comment. I hope it too will contain false statistics, suggestions for group punishment and politically correct hateful stereotyping of men. More than two foreign languages keeps diversity At the May meeting of the Washington Middle School PTA, Superintendent Joseph Olchefske recommended that the Seattle School District offer only two foreign languages, Spanish and Japanese. This would be an unwise action because it eliminates much of the current diversity in the foreign language departments. Many students take languages other than Spanish or Japanese.
Many elementary schools offer foreign languages as extracurricular activities at parents' expense.
If all students were forced to enroll in either Spanish or Japanese, most would choose Spanish because the difficulty of learning characters for Japanese and the scarcity of teachers for that language.