Thursday, December 9, 2010

Strange Bed Fellows

This is an interesting article about how learning a foreign language is being support in the classrooms. The CIA has come out in support of a bilingual curriculum. It makes sense from their point of view because their agents are working in many foreign countries and it makes sense to me because many of my future students will be working abroad. I have heard for years that learning a foreign language is going to be mandatory in the future but it has never happened. We are doing our children a great disservice by not providing this to everyone. The article does go into some information about funding which is a huge concern these days. Maybe the CIA and other security interests such as Homeland Security and the DOD would be willing to help out?