Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter
dangelo@nsnews.com

» The North Vancouver
public schoo] board
- recently endorsed
: Beginning Farsi and :
* Farsi-11 being taught. .
as high school electives.
Farsi is a language spoken
in Iran. Last year’s North
» Vancouver District 44 School
«District statistics indicated
thar 1,192 students came
from homes where -Farsi_ was

ae spoken.

Sid Mirhashemy, the. presi-

oe “ dent of the North: ‘Shore ..
Multicultural Society, lobbied:

‘the school board to offer the
Farsi courses...

© “Farst is one of the oldest
languages, in- fact it. is. the

» “You can use
“the flavour of
- Persian language °
in English
_ poetry...”
. mothe of several languages,”
._ Said “Mirhashemy. :
“You can use the flavour of

“Persian ‘language in English
_ poetry.:. If you know the lan-

guage and ‘culture of a coun-"
try; I’m pretty sure you can.

make better relation cono~
my-wise,” he said...”

Pat Heal,’

it, but the courses will not
count for a language course
needed for graduation,

Mirhashemy said that 700

people signed a petition in
favour of a Farsi language

course in. public) schoals.

Mirhashemy said Farsi is spo-

ken in Iran, Afghanistan, parts
of the former Soviet Union,
India and Pakistan among
many other places.

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¢ offered.in all schools,
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