'I know that you’re in the difficult position to cut funds for our schools, but I ask you, please don’t deprive other kids of learning a new language,' Government Hill Elementary fifth grader Zoe Parrish said to the Anchorage School Board last night.
Audrie Bowman is an eighth grader in the Japanese immersion program at Mears Middle School. She asked the Anchorage school board to continue funding language immersion programs at a board meeting on Oct. 4, 2022.
It was standing room only inside the boardroom. Other attendees watched on a screen out in the lobby.next year and has sought input from families on potential cuts. At Tuesday’s meeting, multiple parents said losing their child’s language immersion program could prompt them to leave Anchorage. “At a time when being Mexican continues to be a liability in this country, the Spanish immersion program at Government Hill is reinforcing Nola’s pride in her Mexican heritage and her love for the Spanish language,” she said.
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