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It's NOT reality that the ONLY time a person will use speaking Spanish is to talk to the help.
I realize most people in the US won't have a Spanish speaking boss. However, every company I have worked for in NYC (2 investment banks, a major consulting firm, and now MasterCard) have huge operations in Latin America. They ALL view being bi-lingual a plus, but ESPECIALLY people who are fluent in Spanish. And the job opportunities run the gamut. I had a friend who made great money as a secretary on the Latin America's trading desk at Deutsche Bank.
Learning a second langauge at a young age is not about NEED, it's about broadening horizons and expanding opportunities.
And Pike2001, I understand your point. However, given the amount of people/countries in the workd that speak Spanish and the fact that the US has so many Spanish-speaking immigrants (legal and non), it's really the most 'logical' language to teach in school. And before someone tells me that Mandarin or Hindi are spoken by more people, the lack of a similar alphabet is the obvious issue there.
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