While I don't like the idea of a high school whose primary purpose appears not to be actually educating students, I have to applaud them on choosing to teach Arabic. There just aren't enough Arabic speakers in the USA. Apparently there is a grand total of 33 agents in the FBI with "even a limited proficiency in Arabic", out of about 12,000. (By contrast about 900 know Spanish, though admittedly that's a more useful language in general internal affairs.)

Of course, characterising any language as a "Third World-type language" strikes me as incredibly chauvinistic, considering what it implies about the "inferiority" of said language, and especially its role in the country's economics. ("You can't expect to eliminate poverty unless you eliminate these backward languages too!" ugh.)