Nahuatl, the Aztec language that once graced Canutillo Elementary was displaced by pragmatism (fwd link)

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*Nahuatl, the Aztec language that once graced Canutillo Elementary was
displaced by pragmatism*

By Meili Robles on September 27, 2012

CANUTILLO, Tx. – While many schools are integrating bilingual studies into
their programs, one teacher went beyond the two-language system at
Canutillo Elementary to include Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

Carlos Aceves, a fifth grade teacher at the school, began teaching Nahuatl
and the Aztec calendar to his students in 1995. But in the same way that
the Spanish did away with the Aztecs, the need to prepare students to take
the state mandated achievement tests purged the Native American language
from the curriculum.

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http://borderzine.com/2012/09/nahuatl-the-aztec-language-that-once-graced-canutillo/
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