Parent Outrage After Blue Valley Schools Dump Chinese Immersion Program

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Parents in the Blue Valley school district learned an hour before a scheduled roundtable with the school board that the district plans to eliminate its Chinese immersion program next year.

The program teaches half the school day in Chinese. Under the district’s plan, only regular Chinese classes in grades 9 through 12 would remain.

Several parents said they moved to the district – sometimes from out-of-state, specifically for the program.

“I moved here for it and I turned down a job for it,” he said. His daughter was in tears.

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'I moved here for it': Blue Valley to eliminate Chinese Immersion program

Several parents said they moved to the district - sometimes from out-of-state, specifically for the program.