Making Italian a language option in high schools

I'm an individual of many different races, meaning not all of my family was able to pass down all of the different languages. I would have loved to been able to take Italian throughout my high school years because the younger you are, the faster and easier it is to learn a language, but because this was not an option, my only option was to wait until college. I think giving children more of a variety of languages that they can learn, would make them feel less forced to take a language and it would encourage them to view it as something they enjoy and actually want to be involved in.