> Old English is just generally not a priority

“Ye Olde” is Middle English (or maybe even Early Modern)

Old English doesn’t look like English at all. To my eyes, it looks Scandinavian-even though I know it is closer to Dutch than to Swedish/Danish/Norwegian. Actually, the closest living relative to Old English (apart from its descendants) is Frisian, a minority language of the Netherlands and northern Germany.

Need to teach kids to be self learners. I knew these facts about old English, but I wasn’t taught them in school. I learned them on my own.