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My experience is similar. Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 02/10/2015 09:14:58 PM

When I was a freshman at my high school, I was offered Latin, French, Spanish, Russian, German, Japanese, Italian, and Arabic. Ancient Greek was offered intermittently.

By the time I graduated, budget cuts and an increasing focus on STEM had led to the school offering only Latin, French, and Spanish.

Also responsible: the Arabic teacher getting fired for threatening to murder some of her students. !ما شاء الله‎

"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla

Ghavrel is Ghavrel is Ghavrel

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This message last edited by Ghavrel on 02/10/2015 at 09:16:05 PM
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