LOLOLOL! That just figures, even the poorest schools in Europe are better than the schools in Texas. It really shouldn't surprise me. Half the kids I went to high school with could barely read, and the adult literacy rate here is at something like fifty percent. There are probably better school systems in the U.S., but Texas is notoriously shabby.

We don't have compulsory foreign language requirements at all. I'm going to send the kiddo to classes when he gets a bit older. I think it's really important for him to learn to speak at least one foreign language, but there's no way I could teach him. My Spanish is so rudimentary that I could only teach him how to ask for a beer; and though I took the optional French classes in high school, they were so bad I had to take remedial French in college.

And, oops, I meant "public school" in the international sense.