Jay Mathews believes that high school students who are attempting to learn a foreign language are not at any kind of advantage. Despite what is told to students, such as it “enhances academic skills and encourages a sense of the wider world,” starting to learn a new language at the high school level is not beneficial as many would like. Throughout the piece, he focuses on everything that our education system is doing wrong while mentioning a system that has had proven success rates. Without specifically saying Mathews gives a blueprint to what would need to be done to make learning a foreign language successful. For many years, Europe has implemented learning English in their schools. They begin teaching the youth the second language when there