Reply #131: No, every child should learn English and Latin.

[Xithras]

English because it's the language our government uses in its internal operations and because the populace needs to understand its language to effectively choose its leaders. Latin because once it's learned, all of the Romance languages (including Spanish) are trivial to acquire afterward.

Personally, J'ai appris le français parce que I preferred it to Spanish. I didn't much care about its "usefulness" in the US, but it was my second language of choice.

As to any "necessity" of learning Spanish: I've lived my entire life in a part of California where more than half the population is Spanish speaking. I've never, not once, been in a situation where my lack of knowledge about Spanish was a problem.