When society doesn’t value something you, as an individual, do, you, the individual, end up paying for society’s lack of valuation.
That’s the case with our personal home language situation and the frustrating lack of valuation of meaningful multilingualism in the United States.
Not a single public school in the state of Colorado, where we live, offers German language immersion, although, eight public schools, most of them in the Denver/Boulder area, offer other language immersion options – Spanish, Chinese, French, and, in one case, Russian.
Language immersion schools .004% of American schools