Thats great.

After all those years, finally, someone senior owes up to their mistake. But what conclusive fix-up was planned? Only more creative teaching? You've been doing that for 30 years but it doesn't really seem to work does it?

My view, on how we may improve our lingua franca, is that we do not try to be too greedy and stick our hands in two pots at once. Look, I know the policy means well, and I am not protesting for a complete overhaul, but the fact remains: We are not all linguists. Heck, we can barely manage one language, and you demand that we master two? I don't think many will agree that we can master two in a short space of time. And in the end, what do you get? Only a half pot language of each where the world doesn't understand us. And that goes right against the policy's aims.

Perhaps one shouldn't demand. But entice. Make it not a requirement. The minds of students work against their teachers - The more you push them, the more they want to walk the opposite way. Let them discover for themselves, the wonder of each language, and when they push themselves, see them fly.

-Cap'n Mook