Mandarin Immersion Parents Council

Daily Hampshire Gazette

By MERCEDES LINGLE

6/1/2023

HADLEY, Mass. — There are few graduations like the one that takes place at the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School, where the student speakers kick off their talks in Mandarin.

It’s fitting, of course, as they’ve been immersed in the language for which their school is named since kindergarten.

Both student speakers at the school’s seventh annual commencement ceremonies Wednesday, Dexter Knight-Richard and Augusto Schwanz, acknowledged at the outset of their speeches that many in the audience would not understand the words — at least until they reverted to English. But the sentiments of what they were saying certainly came through.

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