San Francisco launches high school for immigrants

There are 12 public international high schools in the U.S. Recent immigrant students go to these schools, all learning English and all their other high school studies. - - Donna Poisl

By Steve Angeles, North America News Bureau

SAN FRANCISCO—15-year-old Zunrey Malgar and his sister, Aileen, just came from Mindanao 8 months ago. Fortunately for them the San Francisco School District has a school catered for them and other recent adolescent immigrants. They are both freshmen in San Francisco’s just-launched international high school.

Inside their class, fifty freshmen between the ages of 13 to 15 represent a dozen countries. Everyone is a recent immigrant. With limited English, the students learn through interaction with each other.

“The classes are hard because we don’t understand each other,” said Malgar, “But they (the instructors) teach us English in their lectures.”
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