The arrival of the Newcomer students
By: Danny Yu.
Next semester, Newcomer High School will be closed and the students will then be sent to four other schools. One of the chosen schools that Newcomer kids will enroll at is Mission High. Newcomer High School was closed because of the budget cuts for all the schools. Many people say that closing a school is a bad thing , but some people at Mission think that it is a good idea and that Mission is an ideal school for the Newcomer students.
So how many students will be sent to Mission? Principal Mr. Guthertz says “the number should be 30 or so but, we are going to be a Newcomer pathway so all year long newcomers that come to this country, Mission will be one of their choices. So we anticipate upwards of 150 students.” Even with so many students coming, Mission won’t change much according to Librarian Mr. McDonell. “I don’t know that it will change that much. The population of Newcomer and Mission are pretty similar.”
Some students from Newcomer before they came to Mission say that they didn’t need Newcomer High School. Zuola Guoerluoti says “when students go to a regular high school, they study English in a faster way.” Zuola says that immigrant students learn English faster just by placing them in regular high schools.
