While that is true biologically, in practice, kids will not learn when they are not ready, not in the right environment, not being taught correctly, not having the right teachers. Forcing everyone into a mold never worked and never will. That is THE biggest problem in our education system and education theory.

No worries! Let's face it, Russell took USF to back-to-back championships. That's a heck of an achievement on its own.

You're not considering the number of Spanish language speakers in the US, which is huge, about 41 million.

Language instruction is most effective if you start it really young. Some schools offer immersion starting from kindergarten.

5 year olds still have enough brain plasticity to end up fully bilingual.

If you wait until high school the magic learning window is fully closed.

I spent two years in a school system that didn't even offer any foreign language instruction until 9th grade.

What a waste of learning potential.

[deleted]

Don't give Florida any credit. There are just a bunch of kids who already know Spanish who are taking it in school for the free A.

bc in reality you're talking about 200+ nfl games v 36 races. In addition, you're talking about 8-9 home games v what, 2? 3? per nascar.

Are you going to a career fair event sponsored by your university, or just blasting out applications on Indeed?

I was at first shocked at how low NM was... then I realized we are one of the highest for bilinguals overall. Don't need it in school if you are speaking multiple languages at home.

Good chart. Might try this in excel at a later point. Maybe try to make size or shade of circles into some measure too.

Sure! Feel free to just ask here as well tho. I’m pretty open about it lol

In the study they do not count ESL as a foreign language, however it's worth noting that not every state counts it as a foreign language either. In California for example, a high school ELD course does not count for World Language (E) credit, but it instead counts as general elective credit (G).

This is super interesting! Would you mind me dm'ing you and asking you some questions?

Texas generally only requires 2 years of foreign language in highschool (9-12). This spans K-12

They should count students taking English as a second language, but probably don't.

I am really starting to hate these job-related graphs.

Ones like this are not "beautiful". They're sad, and I hope their OP finds success.

Edit: it's late, I am dumb.

The fans do not all fit in the stadium. A game day at Neyland has thousands outside the stadium there for the game as traveling fans into Knoxville. The traffic is an nee after a game, and downtown is a mess to be avoided.

Anyone who travels by car for the game to the site of the game, whether they fit inside the stadium or not, is absolutely a fan. Since they pay for parking to do BBQs in the parking lot, are issued tickets for this, and are traceable; it seems relevant to call out their existence.

If you want to strictly define attendees inside that study ms that is fine, but it does paint a different picture than that on the ground of many events.

Yea hiring is like hedging your bet on someone. You can have the smartest person alive join your team but if they cant work well with others then it's a bad fit. Imo dev require less soft skills and a lot more tech skill. Something I wasn't cut out for.

Data is from my brain and calendar irl. :P Hours spent are approximated at the end of the day and rounded up. Made by literally just coloring boxes in google sheets.

I have maladaptive daydreaming, which just means my brain forces me to space out super hard-- severity depends person to person, but a "good" day is usually around 1-2 hours and a "bad" day is 6+ hours for me. Marks in the upper right corner of a date means that day was especially busy, stressful, or something bad happened.

any questions or suggestions welcome!

Please delete your comment

I just don’t see the point. (A) you already speak the most popular language in the world, better to learn to speak it well rather than learn a secondary language you will immediately lose due to lack of use. And (B) how do you even go about picking which secondary language to study? You could argue Spanish or French due to shared borders… but is a kid from Connecticut really more likely to go to Mexico than say, Italy? You could do it by popularity but that would be Mandarin followed by Hindi… unless you are going into international business - probably not going to serve you too well. Whats left other than learning for the novelty of it?

Edit: for clarity I am not saying there is no value in learning a second language, just that any given student would find more value deferring that learning until college where they can pick a language that better aligns with their field of study.

And that you learn new things well and are a good human being to work with, which is frankly top when hiring on my team.

Companies only want assurance meaning that you will do what they hired you to do?