Julian Eng is only 10-years-old, but on Friday the fifth-grader played the role of teacher’s assistant as he helped younger fourth-graders learn Spanish. Eng began learning Spanish last year in his fourth-grade class at Cayuga Heights Elementary School as part of a pilot program funded by an Ithaca Public Education Initiative grant. Eng’s was the only class to get the instruction last year.

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This year the elementary school has expanded their Spanish instruction initiative to five classes; three fourth-grade classes and two fifth-grade classes. Money from the school’s Parent Teacher Association enables the school to keep and expand the instruction. Fourth-grade teacher Pam Merola, who wrote the grant that started the Spanish initiative at Cayuga, said teaching young people Spanish is important because our country is changing.

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