The entire product Curtain offers must ultimately fall like a house of cards, when the teachers who stay with the textbook over the next few decades lose their jobs due to their failure to align with the ACTFL standards, and as their:
- small upper level enrollments can no longer be justified.
- school budgets tighten up.
- discipline problems won’t go away at the lower levels because the way they present to kids is so boring.
- Krashen’s research continues to show that all people can learn languages perfectly well as long as they are in the right setting.
- Teachers are called out for preferring to teach only “smart” kids.
- schools’ budgets start to bring the attention of their leaders to ways of teaching that a) work and b) are affordable.