When Will Public Elementary Schools in the US Finally Start Teaching Foreign Languages?
Sep 3, 2018 · 5 min read
Hebrew, Spanish, and Mandarin. These are just three of the non-English languages that I heard other kids speaking while growing up in the 90’s. What I didn’t know at the time, however, was that I was being systematically cheated out of such language skills, and so was every single other student that attended a public K-12 school.
You see, I came from an English-only household, which is not at all uncommon in the United States of America. When other students did happen to know a…

