Most other countries have to teach schoolkids English, since we get English for free we might as well make small Americans suffer through the preterite and subjunctive while their brains are nice and pliant.
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Oh man, the New Brunswickers are coming for you now.
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Also $1.4million is... not very much money? It is 0.001% of the Texas state budget. It is 4 cents per person per year.
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that’s what a small software team’s yearly budget? minuscule
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(Note: Canada doesn't make everyone learn French, and the language of the Quebecois is incomprehensible to actual French-speakers)
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You’re being very charitable toward the quality of French language education in most of Canada. Nowadays I wish it had been better - I’d love to be a polyglot- but that shit was a joke when I was in school.
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I would worry about New Brunswick unleashing their fury against
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To teach someone a foreign language well enough that they would be comfortable and competent to use it in legal proceedings is not going to be done with K-12 education. I doubt many achieve that level of competence in English.
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This is not true; New Brunswick is about about 1/3 French speaking.
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My elementary school taught everybody Spanish for a while but the program was cut. I just had it in 1st grade and remember a song about a frog. Maybe I missed the first day, because whenever the teacher asked “sí o no” I though she was asking if we “see”
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