French lessons

Thats a very interesting article. From what I’ve seen they’ve grossly underestimated the amount of money spent on overseas education. My own AC is in college at the moment and actively pursuing overseas educational programs as are a large percentage of her friends from her high school graduating class. I’ve also warned her I won’t be contributing for long if I don’t see mastery of a foriegn language by end ’08, whether it be Spanish or French and of course that will necessitate joining up with her friends either in Spain or France. Remarkably most of this can be accomplished at gov’t expense through grants, loans and scholarships. Even friends in Lafayette have their children in French immersion from grade school up with summers in Quebec. See a trend here? And I wonder as to the motivation. My daughter states the following: a desire to get “global” with job skills, a growing sense of embarassment and unease with the direction of the U.S. accompanied with a desire to “not get stuck here” and a desire to mix and mingle with, as she puts it, a better gene pool. Guess we’ll see how it all plays out.