In our schools currently, most students are not exposed to a foreign language until around the seventh grade. Many do not even continue it through twelfth grade. This limited foreign language instruction has resulted in few students being able to speak and read a foreign language with a useful degree of fluency. In essence then, this instruction has little long term value to them.

In virtually every other country, students are fluent in two or more languages. Here in the United States, in our infinite egotism, we seek to be accommodated, rather than to accommodate. This affects how we are viewed in the international forum. As we are not an island, we would be more competitive and our lives would be richer if we had a greater ability to communicate with our neighbors.

Furthermore, educational studies have shown that children are more receptive and readily able to learning a new language at a younger age. This is because language patterns and structures are not so deeply engrained in their psyche. Because of this, they pick up new languages quicker and more easily.

Please sign this petition.

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