sorahvxvxvIt's embarrassing and kind of pathetic that people from the U.S. can only speak one language. The U.S. education system sucks and foreign language learning should be mandatory for everyone.
My wife is a LOTE teacher (language other than English) at one if the introductory grade levels where it is mandatory and one of the biggest problems is that the kids don’t want to learn. And this is in a community where the language she teaches is spoken by a significant minority of residents. She also teaches special classes to kids who speak the language at home but need instruction in literacy.
Teachers in the district have had parents tell them that they are wasting money because everyone in 'murica should speak English.
the kids don’t want to learn
Isn’t that true for everything in school?
The difference is that for this subject many of their patents support them not wanting to learn because of cultural politics.
There’s often many things you can do to make them want to learn stuff like this and make it useful and interesting. Could be as simple as some joke posters that say they could talk in private just by speaking a different language to each other.
Kids don’t want to learn in The Netherlands either, but they exit highschool being conversational in multiple secondary languages.