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Community unites to bolster Armenian language program at Watertown High School
Over the past months, organizations and individuals from throughout the Greater Boston Armenian community have come together to support and expand the Armenian language program at Watertown High School.
Dozens attended and testified at a meeting of the Watertown School Committee last spring, successfully appealing for the addition of a second Armenian class for the coming year in response to the increasing number of students registering. The speakers, who included Watertown High parents and alumni, stressed that having more than two dozen students, with beginning, intermediate and advanced levels of Armenian comprehension, could not possibly be effectively taught in a single class.
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Five years ago, I moved to Bigelow Avenue, in the heart of Little Armenia. I was charmed by the ethnic diversity, the wonderful shops and restaurants, and the superior location. I also felt an affinity, as my beloved aunt (my father’s sister-in-law) was Armenian, and would always spoil me, making pilaf or sarme. As my academic career and degree was in foreign languages, and noting my gift of picking up foreign languages easily, I have been very curious to learn of any opportunities to learn the Armenian spoken all around me. I’m assuming it’s Western Armenian, the language of the diaspora. What do you suggest? I’m retired, so my schedule is quite flexible.
The superintendent’s leave is described as “voluntary paid leave until further notice.”