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What language do you propose? Take a pick: Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, or ASL. And then make your arguments as to why it's necessary.
If you propose any other language, you're definitely wasting our time here. There are far too many things to learn, and education organizers have to make decisions somehow.
The U.S. education system sucks in some ways, but it's likely that your state or school district sucked in many more ways. A lot of educational regulations are state-specific, and a lot of the funding is county-specific.
One thing that always baffles me is that people focus on talking. I want to read. I want to understand what I hear and see. See where words come from. I don't want to talk to anyone!
Sign language as a school subject is a really cool idea, though.
In my school the second language was English, and the third you could choose between French and German (I chose German, then my mom overruled me and chose French). Not every school has a third language here at all, but when they do, there are sometimes cool ones where you can choose, say, Mandarin or Korean or Spanish.
In USSR one could choose the second language between English, German and sometimes French. So there are people in ex-Soviet countries who never studied English. The equality of these choices stemmed from USSR being a fossil.
Also people in Europe who would receive good classical education 100 years ago and frankly even now would study Classical Latin, Classical Greek, possibly Ancient Hebrew and in addition to that a few contemporary languages, like, again, French and German.
I don't think studying any one language in addition to your native one is hard, and it's very good for your brains.