They’re still languages; it’s not like the classes would be any easier. Personally, I think K-12 language instruction in the United States, at least, needs to be completely and totally rethought. Torn down and rebuilt from the ground up. It’s nonsensical the way things work now, and the types of languages that students are learning. Most US students are more likely to find a practical use for Klingon in their lives than German and French, and yet we still labor under the assumption that practicality should drive language instruction—despite the fact that starting at 14 is not practical, and not teaching languages spoken in one’s community (where I live, Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese) is crazy. Either we say it’s about practicality, and it starts in kindergarten and focuses on regional languages, native or otherwise, or we say it’s just about exercising the language part of the brain, and it can be anything—even multiple different languages studied minimally, rather than one studied in depth (also it starts in kindergarten). The way things are now is dumb.