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From http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/frontpage/110703.php

High school students teach Chinese to elementary pupils
Elementary pupils getting help learning Chinese from Cholla, Tucson High students
ARIANNA HERMOSILLO
February 22, 2009

Students from Tucson and Cholla high magnet schools are stepping into classrooms, not as students but as teachers. Kimberly Gaskill teaches Chinese at both high schools and her second-year students are teaching classes at Andy Tolson and Roskruge bilingual elementary schools. Cholla High students go every Thursday afternoon to Gina Teixeira's second-grade class at Tolson, 1000 S. Greasewood Road. Gaskill's Tucson High students walk every Friday morning to Roskruge, 501 E. Sixth St., and teach in Aida Garcia-Iniguez's fifth-grade class. Gaskill said the idea came from participating in the STARTALK program.

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