Habla usted espaol? Paulo Ortega and Jasmine Melgar do. Muy bien, in fact. The sixth-graders are the first graduates of the dual immersion “My family speaks Spanish on my dad’s side, so he wanted me to learn His classmate agreed, noting that her grandparents also speak The two have become fluent in both English and Spanish, learning to Read more in Rich Irwin’s story RORIMER.
program at Rorimer Elementary in La Puente. Since kindergarten, the
12-year-olds have been taught in both Spanish and English.
it,” Paulo explained. “Now I want to take French or Italian in high
school.”
Spanish. “I wanted to become bilingual and learn more about the Spanish
culture,” Jasmine said.
read and write in the two languages.
