Why do children have to learn German?

Answer 1

There should be no mandatory reason a child has to learn German unless for some specific geograpic requirements but here in the United States they try to emphasize the broad European languages like French and German but now even Japanese is being introduced. The idea is that children are mentally more open and capable of learning a foreign language than an adult. The only reason I can think it would be mandatory is if in the child's curriculum they are studying a play that has many German words or something similar to that much like Latin plays.