Current Publishing – Kayla J. Collins
“As a group of energetic kindergartners filed into Feng Yu’s classroom last week, the guest teacher from China greeted them with a friendly smile. “Nin Hao,” said Feng, which means hello in Mandarin Chinese…SAD 6 Superintendent Frank Sherburne said the district for several years has aimed to introduce world language courses at the elementary level. Sherburne said providing a Chinese language and culture program to students is a good investment because it will help them thrive in the 21st century economy…We also projected out what the political climate would be in regards to future economics and job opportunities. We felt as though Chinese language and culture was where we wanted to focus our attention.””(more)