City Schools / Whitehaven High Goes Global with Arabic Class -- Four Languages Being Introduced by District

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As school buses roll back to their stops Monday morning, consider the challenge of educators in the global economy.

On Friday, Mary Antone - an Egyptian-born and -raised language teacher at Whitehaven High - draped and pinned the gentle folds of a traditional garment called a galabeya on the classroom bulletin board and tacked up hand-lettered signs in Arabic script.

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City Schools / Whitehaven High Goes Global with Arabic Class -- Four Languages Being Introduced by District

Besides being the first teacher in the state to teach high school Arabic - starting Monday - her job is to demystify a culture most Americans know only from the news.

"When I tell people I grew up i...

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