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Originally Posted by issybird
I am appalled that in Texas kids aren't started on Spanish early and continued in it through high school. One year! In French!
It was a long time ago, but my (public in the American sense) high school offered French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Latin and Ancient Greek, of which I took four years of French and five of Latin (two concurrently).
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I think they do offer Spanish but it doesn't count as a foreign language course to those that already speak Spanish.
Except for the migrant workers (oilfield), our area is 45% Hispanic (Mexican) as of the last census. So Spanish is not a foreign language here.
Now many kids here do college courses in high school. So they have more choices.
I have a cousin that in September starts high school/college. She will be in 9th grade.