Kings Canyon Unified School District parent academy helps parents learn English as a second language

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Kings Canyon Unified School District is prioritizing learning for the full family.

At Jefferson Elementary School, people isn't conscionable successful league for the students.

Parents are besides sharpening their pencils and taking notes.

The Parent Academy gives those who don't talk English the accidental to learn.

That includes Mayra Saavedra, who has a 3-year-old and a 7-year-old. She precocious moved to the country from Mexico.

In Spanish, she says the English people has been helping a batch due to the fact that she didn't recognize immoderate English, but present she tin recognize a small bit.

Courses are taught by Anita Betancourt, who has tally the people for 24 years.

The parents and grandparents who travel for acquisition 3 times a week are encouraged to participate.

Betancourt weaves successful and retired of English and Spanish to guarantee the lessons marque sense.

"When they travel and we effort to thatch them English, well, they don't recognize what the connection means, truthful we construe it for them truthful 'Oh! Now I cognize what it is.'" Betancourt said.

The occurrence of the programme is visible.

Edith Aleman who helps Betancourt thatch the people was erstwhile a pupil herself.

Betancourt says the people provides a harmless abstraction for parents to larn and to physique a assemblage with others who person akin stories.

"It builds the narration with them wherever they larn to spot us, and they unfastened up for antithetic different things that they request help," Betancourt said.

Betancourt says galore of the students enactment successful the tract and packing houses, truthful classes are held during the off-season - betwixt September and April.

Childcare is besides provided successful the schoolroom adjacent door.

All of it is escaped to parents truthful they tin larn and amended their future.

Betancourt, who didn't talk Spanish erstwhile she archetypal started teaching the class, says she gets conscionable arsenic overmuch retired of the people arsenic the parents do.

"It's been a joyousness to enactment with them due to the fact that we enactment together," Betancourt said.

There are respective classes that are offered here, including a citizenship class, intelligence wellness and nutrition.

It's each escaped for parents oregon grandparents who are interested.

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