Monday, May 08, 2006

Georgia: Toward Monolingualism?

When school budgets become tight, one of the first things to disappear is the study of foreign languages. Although languages are increasingly becoming more important as the world keeps getting smaller, schools in Georgia are going to drop the teaching of foreign languages in Atlanta schools. While the study of foreign languages in a basic subject in many industrialized countries, in the US it’s a frill which schools think it can be done away. SAD.

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