"Since starting school this year, 6-year-old Ashlin Clarke tosses out simple phrases in Mandarin such as “good night” to her family.
“I use it at home with my family,” said the first-grader at Manor View Elementary School. “That’s good.”
Ashlin and the other students in first through fifth grades are in their first year of Mandarin instruction at the school.
The offering of a second language is part of Manor View’s designation as an International Baccalaureate World School earlier this month."
Published in the Maryland Gazette.