In a Mattapan kindergarten classroom one recent morning, a girl pointed one by one at numbers on the brightly decorated wall, prompting her classmates to count: “en, de, twa, kat.” Next, they counted in English.
The children, some of them recent immigrants from Haiti, were among 75 students in Mattahunt Elementary School’s Toussaint L’Ouverture Academy, where the teachers — all Haitian American — lead lessons in both Haitian Creole and English. Many of the children are learning English while others are native English speakers.
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