You’re right, sorry.

Biggest disparity across the board is that NFL and MLB games are in much larger stadiums, some NFL teams are played in domes but they are much larger than NFL and NHL stadiums.

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And many schools do. I started Spanish in 3rd grade.

That doesn’t mean it’s distorted. It’s just part of the reason the numbers are so low in some states.

The terms "foreign language," "world language," and "language other than English" are often used interchangeably even though they are not the same. For example, most schools in California have Spanish classes for both native and non-native speakers. Likewise, it is common to see ASL housed in "foreign language" departments. Truth be told, I just used the term "foreign language" since I thought it would be most recognizable to the reader.

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This is very distorted Many schools don’t offer a foreign language until eighth grade or later.

Edit: what I meant was you are automatically going to wind up with a very small number. Not many schools teach foreign languages under eighth grade. And when they said total number of students, did they start counting in kindergarten? You are automatically going to wind up with a very low number. What if 100% of students starting in 10th grade get intensive language training? Or maybe only their senior year? I really think what would be more realistic is how many students graduate speaking a languages that they learned in school.

Is Spanish a "foreign language" in the US, or does it just mean, "foreign to the student"?

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Is it your experience that folks who use they/them pronouns, or who don’t identify as cis, are largely neurodivergent anyway? At least that’s been my assumption…

Some schools have foreign language requirements. My college-prep high school required 2 years. It would be interesting to see number of schools that have a foreign language requirement vs. those that don't, because I'm guessing most students only take the minimum requirement.

My SD school taught Lakota, German and Spanish so not surprised

As a web dev back in the day when we had to employ a ton of hacks to work with IE, especially 6 and 7, this data truly is beautiful!

> Amazing. Larger average capacity translates into more attendance averages.

I’m guessing that stadium capacities scale to the attendance. Sellouts almost never happen in many stadiums.

I'm pretty much of the opinion that you basically have to take immersion if you want a good grasp of a second language. Up here in Canada everyone takes French from kindergarten through grade 9, but a vast majority of English speakers don't have a good enough grasp of French to carry on a conversation. It's really only the students who opt to take French immersion that have a food grasp of the language.

No, it's K-12. Remember that in California students are only required to take two years of a language other than English in high school (and that's only if they're on the A-G track). I teach Spanish and French in a public school in CA and where I work most students take two years and stop. Meanwhile, a lot of districts don't even offer language in middle and elementary school.

The ratings are about respect, not quantity

We have quite a few schools that are full immersion from 1st grade on. I feel like this is a snapshot from 2017 of those doing it at that moment.

Might need to add a more precise definition of the subject base to the title. Just about all students k-12 in CA take Spanish. I haven't read your source but I presume it's college electives rather than all students.

I wonder what effect the grade definition has on this? For instance, a place might have more students having taken a foreign language by the time they graduate from high school, but not before grade 10, diluting that place's average across K - 12. It'd also be interesting to see this qualified some how, like "percent of students passing some standardized test of fluency in any foreign language by graduation".

Source: ACTFL Foreign Language Enrollment Survey (2017)

Tool: Mapchart.net

EDIT: I didn't calculate the %'s myself. They can be found on page 7 of the source.

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Oof, my bad. Yeah, i didn't realize it came across that way. I meant that i recognize that Edge is a great browser, as you say, but that hasn't translated into popularity, due to what i think is the bad aftertaste from ie.

The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball.

America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.

This field, this game-it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again.

Ohhhhhhhh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.