German students will be able to continue their language study thanks to science teacher Susane Colyer.
While the school is no longer offering beginning classes, students who started in German were able to continue this year.
A new language may take the place of the German class.
Colyer, who grew up in Germany, volunteered to teach the German curriculum because of the absence of a current German teacher.
“She makes us feel connected as a whole,” sophomore Isaak Kubite said.
Colyer agreed to teach German for students who wanted to finish their language study.
“I’m following the set curriculum with my twist,” Colyer said.
The World Language Department is slowly removing German from their language elective options. As an offering this year students can take German 3, 4, 5 and 6.
It is sad departure for many students currently taking German in these trimesters.
“I’m sad because the main reason why I chose German was because of the different grammar system,” sophomore Chase Bourner said.
Japanese may be considered as a replacement for German. Currently there is a 5.5 class.
“It would be nice to have an addition to the CRF and more opportunities to learn about another culture such as Japanese,” junior Prod Wannasusri said.
The 5.5 after school Japanese class provides students with the opportunity to learn basic Japanese vocabulary, culture and history. The main focus being communication skills for the students to learn.
For Japanese to be an official class it would need 31 students to sign up and a teacher for the school to be able to fund it.
“We hope it peaks the students’ interests,” Assistant Principal Gannon Burks said.
If it doesn’t meet the requirement then there will still be French, Spanish and American Sign Language (ASL) for students to take as their language requirement.
ASL is currently being offered to Titans to take as an opportunity to learn more traditional languages.