The Families
Durell Laury is a 3rd grader at Starr King Elementary. He and his classmates are already reading and writing in Mandarin.
As a 7th grader at Alice Fong Yu Alternative School, Kelly Wong reads and writes both
Cantonese and Mandarin. To hang onto their city basketball championship, she and her
classmates sometimes fool their opponents by calling plays in Chinese.
Jason Patiño, is maintaining a 4 point average in middle school, testing above grade level in
both English and Spanish. He hopes to attend the University of California at Berkeley.
Julian Enis is a sophomore at Lowell High School where he is currently taking the highest
level of Chinese offered in the school district. He is looking for ways to continue studying
Mandarin, and
