@soxmom I think my question is more, why is French taught at almost every school? German and Italian are both hard to find, and for business in central and Eastern Europe, German is quite important. Why not more, what the govt calls “critical” languages important to our nations security? I realize why at public schools the offerings may be slim, but I’m surprised at the narrow offerings in boarding schools, except for a few, the language offerings are not that impressive. My local magnet school at least includes russian, Arabic, Japanese, German, and sign language! My parents are from abroad so I speak Norwegian and Russian and have been studying German. I Figure I could pick up Spanish easily if I wanted to, and it’s obvious why that is so popular.