OK.

I'm sure this discussion can be taken as less of a slap in the face than I took it, but this is a subject that has the potential to send me to drink... heavily.

Do I think we should learn another language? Yes. Do I think it has to be Spanish? No. Do I think that, if we go somewhere on vacation we should make an effort to learn at least some of the language? Sure.

I do not, however, feel that it's my 'duty' to have my child learn spanish in order to live in America. I don't think that, when I go to my local Sweet Bay down the street from my house, that people should roll their eyes at me because I'm one of the only people who speak the NATIVE LANGUAGE of my own country!

The phrase "Don't worry, they'll learn English" just made me laugh. Really? Why would they bother when everything is written and spoken in spanish anyway?