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To: rickmichaels

I’ve said forever that high schools need to have personal finance courses as a requirement to graduate. They would be a damn sight more valuable that wasting time learning a foreign language.


5 posted on 03/24/2019 5:35:42 AM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: abb

Learning a foreign language is not a waste of time. Most valuable courses I took in an academic program in high school late 60s was Spanish and typing. Who knew we would be keyboarding and that Spanish would be so useful. I wish I was fluent.


10 posted on 03/24/2019 5:39:52 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: abb

Learning a foreign language is not a waste of time. Most valuable courses I took in an academic program in high school late 60s was Spanish and typing. Who knew we would be keyboarding and that Spanish would be so useful. I wish I was fluent.


12 posted on 03/24/2019 5:40:24 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: abb

I took some spanish in Jr. and high school. Although I never spoke it well. I could read and write in it OK.

It actually helped me in English classes.


14 posted on 03/24/2019 5:41:35 AM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: abb

Personal finance required for seniors in Missouri.


15 posted on 03/24/2019 5:41:40 AM PDT by netguide
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To: abb

Je ne dirai jamais que l’apprentissage des langues étrangères gaspille le temps. Il y a plein d’opportunités pour ceux qui apprennent des langues en outre que leur langue natale.

I would never say that it is a waste of time to learn another language. There are many opportunities for people who learn another language.


48 posted on 03/24/2019 6:25:01 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: abb

We had school banks and mock elections.


50 posted on 03/24/2019 6:25:20 AM PDT by Oldexpat (Jobs Not Mobs)
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