The new york times covers romain dallemand’s mandarin
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The superintendent of Bibb County Public Schools in Macon, Georgia introduced a plan to make Mandarin Chinese language instruction mandatory for all K-12 students. The plan has received national media attention and requires students from pre-kindergarten through 3rd grade to take Mandarin classes, with the intention of expanding it to middle and high schoolers in the next three years. Despite some parental objections, the program is continuing as planned with support from 25 new Mandarin teachers supplied by a Confucius Institute.
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The new york times covers romain dallemand’s mandarin
- 1. The current superintendent of Macon, Georgia’s Bibb County Public Schools, Romain Dallemand recently introduced a plan to institute mandatory Mandarin Chinese language instruction for all K-12 students. This initiative recently received a great deal of attention in major media outlets across the United States.
- 2. On September 10, 2012, the New York Times published an article on Romain Dallemand’s efforts entitled “Making Mandarin Mandatory - in U.S. Kindergartens.” Written by staff reporter Mark McDonald, the piece reported that mandatory Mandarin classes had already been instituted for children from pre- kindergarten through third grade and that similar curriculums for middle school and high school students would follow in the next three years. Despite objections from many parents who, for various political or practical reasons, simply do not want their children to learn Chinese, the program is going forward as planned. At the present time, Bibb County supports approximately 25 new Mandarin teachers that are being supplied by the Confucius Institute at the Atlanta-area college Kennesaw State.