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Originally Posted by dreamchaser
America needs a visual language for a seond language instead of a foreign language.
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I can't agree with this. I absolutely agree that ASL should be available in schools as an option along with spoken foreign languages, but not "instead of." Students should have the option to learn spoken foreign languages if they want; consider the case of children of immigrants who would like to learn their heritage language, or students with a particular interest in a culture who want to learn that language.
ASL should not be forced on people who don't want to take it, since we've seen what kind of negative behaviors and attitudes (cheating, etc.) take place in ASL classrooms with students who don't really want to learn the language.