ARMENIA’S MINISTER OF DIASPORA VISITS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY
By Megan O’Neil
Glendale News Press
Feb 3 2011
CA
Diplomat tours and praises one of GUSD’s two Armenian language FLAG
programs.
Four years after launching the district’s first Armenian heritage
program at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, Glendale Unified
officials on Wednesday welcomed Armenia’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs
Hranush Hakobyan to the site.
“I am absolutely thrilled and impressed with how our kids in such a
short period can be perfectly fluent in both languages, Armenian and
English,” Hakobyan said through a translator.
Hakobyan toured classrooms where students, many wearing traditional
Armenian clothing, greeted her with songs, poems and small gifts.
From: A. Papazian
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