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school officials arc planning
to open a sixth Bilingual
Education Center sometime
in the early part of Novem
ber in response to the large
number of bilingual
students enrolled in the
system this academic year.
The new center, to be
located at the Irwin Avenue
Open School, will initially
rommodate 36 students to
transferred from Billing^,
ville Elementary and will
concentrate on service to
Indo-Chinese students. One
teacher from the Billings
ville Center is being trans
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to do something about the
problem. The association
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10 Kilometer and two-mile
runs on campus at 10 a.m.,
Saturday, Oct. 27.
The courses pass through
rolling countryside in nor
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calling the UNCC Alumni
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from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Carol Cosgrove, an Ac
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will be guest speaker at the
monthly meeting of the
Charlotte Legal Secretaries
Association (CLSA) Tues
day, November6at6p.m. at
the Cupboard Restaurant,
3005 South Boulevard.
Ms. Cosgrove’s topic will
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served. For reservations and
further information call
Eloiae Fisher at 374-2254,
lcrrea 10 invm Avenue, and
a new teacher and an aide
are being hired.
Most of the students
being transferred are those
who were placed in the
system by Catholic Services
under the Vietnamese
refugee relocation program.
Everyone in the system
from the Superintendent
on down to the classroom
teachers involved — are
genuinely excited about this
new opportunity." said Kay
Mitchell, Coordinator of the
CMS Bilingual Education
program. “It’s a situation
that will enable us to make
an already good program
even better.”
“Because of the large
number of bilingual
students, especially tiiose
whose native language is
Vietnamese, we saw this as
the chance to respond to
their ‘Americanization’ even
more positively than we
were able to do at Billings
ville,” she continued. “And,
before we made any
announcement of any kind,
a representative from this
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namese translator, made a
personal, in-home visit to
the parents of each of the
students involved in the
transfer,” she concluded.
Included in the in-home
visitation was information
on bus numbers, times and
routes, and also general
information about what
parents and students could
expect in the transition.
Those students involved
have already visited their
new school, met the teachers
and principal, Dr. Bruce
Irons, and spent some time
with each other and their
new classmates getting
acquainted.
On Monday, October 22,
an open house has been
scheduled for the parents of
the students being
transferred. It will be held
at 9:00 a.m. at Irwin
Avenue School.
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raT, fcr
a number of years, operated
five Bilingual Centers to
assist students whose native
language is not English in
the process of learning
subject matter in English as
the language of instruction.
“We realized that there
was a very special
problem,” Ms. Mitchell
observed, “in that there
were students attempting to
learn increasingly difficult
lessons in their subject
matter ... subject matter
that was written in a foreign
language. That’s why we
began the Bilingual
Centers.”
Most of the 300 students
involved are in the elemen
tary grades and attend
Billingsville Co 11 ins wood, or
Sedgefield elementary
schools. Sedgefield Junior
High School and Myers
Park High School operate
bilingual programs for older
students. Sedgefield
Elementary specializes in
the Greek language in much
the same way the Irwin
Avenue will concentrate on
Vietnamese and Indo
Chinese language and
culture.
In addition to serving
bilingual students, the
Billingsville campus also
houses the system's center
for physically handicapped
students. Irwin Avenue
conducts special classes for
the emotionally handi
capped child.
“I think we’re on the
right track in bilingual
education,” Dr. Jay
Robinson, CMS Superin
tendent, said. "Our
program has become a
model, not only across
North Carolina, but
nationally as well in res
ponse to the influx of new
Vietnamese citizens to our
country and our communi
ties. 1 m proud of our pro
gram and think it responds
directly to a very real need
within one segment of our
school population," he
continued.
The system continuously
attempts to identify
students with a particular
language difficulty and
responds in a positive way
to help them overcome it.
Charlotte * Mecklenburg
School System serves some
76,000 students and is the
nation’s 32nd largest public
school system.
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Charlotte recently celebrated
its Founder’s Day at the home
of Basilieus Mrs. Thereasea
Elder. Founded in 1948, in
Washington, D C. the sorority
is a national organization for
registered professional
nurses.
The Iota Chapter
recently contributed $1,000 to
Harvey Gantt’s campaign for
mayor. At the October
meeting Gantt thanked the
group publicly and urged
them to vote on election day.
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