More than two-thirds of Florida residents polled say public school students should have to take Spanish, according to a monthly University of Florida economic survey.POLL: Tell us what language you think Florida students should learn.You’d expect South Florida residents might see a reason to require students to study Spanish -- gateway to Latin America, and all -- and they do.But the University of Florida found the idea was supported by more than 60 percent of those polled in every region of the state -- North, Central, Southwest and Southeast.Christopher McCarty is the director of the University of Florida Survey Research Center at the Bureau of Economic and Business Research. He added the question to the university's monthly economic poll and is surprised by the result.“Given this is somewhat of a contentious issue, certainly in other states, I thought that this might be more contentious here," he said. "But there was strong support for requiring Spanish and requiring our children
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