The public schools in my area have all been teaching Mandarin and Chinese culture to the kids from Kindergarten and on. I’ve never liked this one bit, for reasons that I’ll post here, and I’m entirely chaffed by the fact that they’ve spent $300,000 on the program with an additional $36,000 this year.

The program comes to an end this year. It’s been going for three. You can read a bit about it from our local newspaper: Computers will enhance Chinese program.

I just posted the following comment to the newspaper’s Comment section on the above linked article. Agree or disagree? Feel free to post either here or at the newspaper’s website.

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