Could you design a worse system for making sure people don't study languages?

If you wanted to design a system for making sure as few people as possible learn a language, our school system is perfect: "Transition" from KS2 to KS3 where pupils either start all over again in the language they have been studying, or abandon it and start another language. Cowardly tinkering with performance measures supposedly to support take up at KS4, while the biggest headline performance…