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On almost an annual basis, Tammy Haldeman has had to teach two levels of Japanese language students during the same class period at Skyline High School.

Last school year, she had to pick between teaching a split class of 44 students or make two separate periods out of it. Ultimately she had to keep the group together and teach two levels of Japanese, she said, because one class would not be large enough to warrant creating another class period.

She is able to make do, and it ends up working out alright, she said, but the students in those classes lose out on the closer attention they might otherwise receive in a typical language class with one level.

“You’re more like a facilitator of their learning with that,” Haldeman said.“You have to have highly motivated kids in those classes.”

Haldeman’s situation isn’t unique. Teachers and school administrators have to use the resources available. But due to non-existent class-size-reduction funding and teacher shortages in some languages, foreign language programs around the Issaquah and Lake Washington school districts are facing challenges similar to those in the arts and other elective programs.

Even so, district officials said they know the benefits to studying a foreign language early and have worked to provide options for students as early as eighth grade.

In addition to in-house offerings at Pine Lake and Beaver Lake middle schools and Inglewood Junior High School, some elementary school students in both districts have options through PTA-sponsored after-school language programs, too.

“You are very limited in what you can pack in during that six-hour day. It forces you to prioritize,” said Ron Thiele, Issaquah School District’s associate superintendent. “Even if you had the student interest; even if you could get the teachers, you still have to confront that issue, of ‘what am I willing to stop offering.’ Those become really dicey conversations.

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