Silver Lake Elementary School (Delaware) students are participating in a unique language program, part of the district's new emphasis on international education, funded by a referendum approved by voters in December 2006. Students receive instruction in each language on a rotating basis throughout the year. They meet with language teachers twice a week for nine weeks, then move on to a new language.
"The world is changing, and the skills that students need need to change in response to that," Superintendent Tony Marchio said. "It's a much flatter world now. There's a global society that we need to be in tune with and responsive to."
