>it's just a place to hold you in a desk and fill out worksheets. The US education system is incredibly diverse--as is the US as a whole. That may the case in

>it's just a place to hold you in a desk and fill out worksheets. The US education system is incredibly diverse--as is the US as a whole. That may the case in some schools, but it's certainly not the case everywhere. My southern high school was suburbun/almost rural and had enough kids on free lunch to qualify as a low income, but my German classes were extremely intensive. The French and Spanish classes were no joke either. And in much of the country almost everyone will interact with native Spanish speakers fairly often.