The 15-student class is the home to Orland Park School District 135’s English as a Learned Language program, also known as English as a Second Language.

The three-year-old program is designed to help students who have little or no English speaking skills learn the language. It runs through the junior high school level, but it is only in kindergarten that it is taught as its own class.

School officials noticed a need for the program when one year about 30 kindergartners who spoke a language other than English enrolled in the district.

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