Besides the basic Spanish, German, and French.
Anyone know of any studies, and REALLY GOOD sources for reasons languages such as Russian, Polish, etc. are not offered?
2006-12-14 22:40:15 · 8 answers · asked by Em 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It's often a matter of budget and of where you live. Is the area around your high school racially homogeneous? Since German is one of a few small options, I'm assuming your school is prodominantly white. And how many students are in your school?
My high school was one of the most racially and culturally diverse high schools in the country (if not THE most diverse, lol), and we had about 2500 students. The languages we had were Spanish, Italian, French, German, Russian, Hebrew, Chinese, and Latin. The only times when we stopped offering languages was when there was no interest in it. One time there were about 5 people who signed up for German, so German had to be dropped. Things like that. But otherwise, we offered a lot. We had enough diversity, enough students, and enough teachers to do that. We were also the most prestigious public high school in Philadelphia, so we had a lot of resources and the opportunity to get a lot of great teachers.
Because of all those things, my high school had the ABILITY to offer so many languages and courses and electives and such. I'm thinking that if you go to a smaller, homogenous school without a lot of prestige, they probably don't have the same accessibiliy yo resources, funding, and teachers that my high school did. It also might be a lack of interest in some languages or an inability to offer so many classes based on time schedules and such.
If you want to know that badly, ask your principal about it and see if there's anything that can be done. Chinese and Russian are great langauges to introduce into your program because they're very widely spoken. Those two and the three you already have would be a GREAT language program.
2006-12-15 02:50:06 · answer #1 · answered by Stina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes it could be a matter of their budget stretching too far. In other cases, it could be because they cannot find anyone who speaks any additional languages. There could be a lot of reasons. Also, some students might not have an interest to learn anything but the normal German, French or Spanish.
2006-12-14 22:44:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because English (American English, specifically) is the language of money, business, and commerce. That's all anyone needs to know.
If you want to learn a foreign language, there are private schools sthat offer them.
Most people rapidly forget the foreign language they learned in High school, anyway, due to disuse. If you take a language in high school, I would suggest Latin. It will make your college studies easier, especially in in English, Biology, Logic, Law, etc, to name a few.
2006-12-14 22:58:54 · answer #3 · answered by Icky Vicky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian, however a few would possibly not be there subsequent 12 months considering the fact that plenty of lecturers might possibly lose their jobs. We have four spanish lecturers, and best one million trainer for every of the opposite topics. We have got to get three overseas language credit as good.
2016-09-03 17:03:25 · answer #4 · answered by winkels 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it's because you already speak english which is world language. everyone understands it, that means you don't need to learn any other languages. spanish is necessary because there are thousands of hispanics in the us. german isn't really necessary but you can use it. and french is kind of important. russian is also important (because many people speak it) but you don't need it for business reasons (as long as you don't plan to move to russia) so why teach it? and poland isn't really important, is it? i think you only learn english, spanish, german and french because if you know some of those languages, you can really talk to everyone...
2006-12-14 23:49:40 · answer #5 · answered by tine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the times we face a lack of interest from the bulk of students who attend public high schools. Another possible reason is they aren't part of the operational requirements to get a an enviable job.
2006-12-14 22:52:22 · answer #6 · answered by tearaway_weft 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not enough demand, I imagine. Check with your local community college though. Sometimes they have additional foreign languages that they will allow high school students to attend.
2006-12-14 22:48:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Private schools do.
Does daddy have the cash?
2006-12-14 22:47:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋