Part 1 of "HOW TO ELIMINATE A LANGUAGE"

Jimmy wasn't like other kids. He hung out alone, not just in his head, but alone to the naked eye. You could always see him sitting on the wall that seperated the courtyard from the lunch patio.
He most often had his eyes closed and didn't look like he was paying any attention to the activities around him. People would walk by and point. Mostly they would laugh.

Every once in a while someone would stop and ask if he was okay. His reponse was always with a smile. Which often gave a reserved reponse and a polite "excuse me", and they would walk away.
To the casual observer this exchange was nothing more than a strange encounter between a young man and a concerned citizen. This is what the casual observer noticed. To those who payed attention to more than the worries in their owe lives this was actually a sad moment in a young mans life.
Not sad because the concrened citizen didn't understand the simple smile of a young man named Jimmy.
It was a sad encounter because a young man named Jimmy who could be the the leader of a nation, who could be the next big movie star, who could be the next great father of a brilliant child could not communicate the same way as the rest of us.

You see Jimmy was an artist.

He communicated with his music and his drawing and his observations of the world around him. Jimmy was shy. Jimmy was introverted. Jimmy was different from the rest of us. Yet he could not communicate with this concerned citizen.

He had trouble telling the rest of us how he thought with a math problem, with a histirical statement or with science.
Now I ask, "is it important to keep the arts well and alive in our school systems or is it not that important to loose touch with the next MOZART or the the next PICASSO?"

It is a monetary question yes, but I think it is bigger than most people see. Than most people think about. No preaching allowed here. No save Jimmy campaigns.

Just something to think about.

Is the lose of a language really that important to the future. YOU DECIDE.