Should fluency in a foreign language be required for high school?

Foreign Language study improves knowledge of your own. Every other industrialized nation requires their students to start a language in 4th to 6th grade. Most learn more than one.

In fact, I've been told by Europeans that I couldn't be American if I knew more than one foreign lang.

People who study a Foreign Language have higher SAT scores. And for the record, German is the easiest language for English speakers to learn as the languages are closely related. Beyond that studies have shown that student desire to learn a language is the best predictor for success in that class.

No, certainly no longer. Not every body has the capability to gain knowledge of overseas languagues, and as such might be doomed to failure and undergo a large hit to their trust. This is especially so if overseas language research has no longer been undertaken from an early age. Early Childhhod schooling study has proven that babies and babies reveal spicific finding out procedures which supply them the capability to lean overseas languages, nevertheless those procedures can also be misplaced if no longer used. Look for study from Dr. Newport (institution of Rochester) in this matter. I do nevertheless consider that colleges and faculties will have to among them present a much wider array of languages for individuals who desire to research them.

If you live in this country (AMERICA) then the ONLY languge you should have to speak is English. (which is actually american, if you go to England they think we speak funny) It dosen't hurt to speak another language or two, but this country needs to get over politically correct and realise that this country was built on immigrants who assimilated to our society and wanted to be here. They also were required to learn english and our history to be allowed to remain here.

no way! why take a lanuage when you can enrich some other subject you want to major in, in collage. i vote NO.

I suppose it should be spanish, since in 60 years we will all be speaking it.