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I hear you, but language class is actually a decent example. I met a language requirement of 2 years in high school. Then I turned around and completed the required two semesters in college, of the same language, starting over at the beginning. I don't know anything but the most elementary French.
In high school I did all the homework and felt lots of stress and really struggled. In college, I google translated my way through all the homework, phoned it in and same result, way less time and energy. So using the computer was actually easier in the end.
I'm probably never making it to France. Maybe not even Canada. You could argue it was still good for my brain to stretch in that way, but it was just never going to click for me and was a requirement regardless of my actual educational needs.
My single semester of sign language I actually picked up on decently and it tickled my brain in all kinds of ways, and I actually used it at work once to help a dude. No one's ever come into any of my workplaces speaking French (at least not yet)
That’s a totally different situation, to be fair. I’m teaching German to recent immigrants to Germany. They will be much, much better off if they know the language.