1 Neighborhood. 24 Kindergarten Classes. 40 Languages. (Some Miming Helps.) [www.nytimes.com]

Morgan Vien 7/2/1811:28 AM

TORONTO — Amna’s first language was Urdu. Her friend Talyah’s was Arabic.
But the other day in the corner of a classroom, they spoke English in between giggles, while spilling marbles into a funnel.
The girls are students at Fraser Mustard Early Learning Academy — a school in the Thorncliffe Park neighborhood of Toronto that was built just for kindergarten children from the nearby apartment buildings.
The school has 630 students, all between the ages of 4 and 6, and most are the children of immigrants. This makes up 24 classes of kindergartners.

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