Learning new languages at an early age is best

The Cedar Rapids School District adding Spanish to kindergarten and first grades makes sense, introducing it during the sponge years rather than waiting for ninth grade to introduce language into the educational system. Even if a community has an ethnicity, such as Czech, German or Welsh, of which I'm half, it makes sense because there are male, female and non-gender references added to verbiage unlike English or Americanism, which we speak with many language flavors added, making it an expansive language far greater than any other.

Yes, English is difficult, and we need to broaden horizons early on.

I went to the Cedar Rapids public schools, and although I'm a Heinz 57, I sure didn't want to spend hot summers penned up in some school classroom learning Czech.

Tim T. Evans

Solon