Most of the less common language classes are taught in neighborhood churches, but Armenian is taught in this high school, probably the last Armenian class in a public school. - - Donna Poisl
By Erica Noonan, Globe Staff
WATERTOWN - With the third highest number of Armenian immigrants in the United States, Watertown faces a formidable challenge - how to preserve what may be the country’s last surviving Armenian-language program at a public high school.
Prospects for the program, on the eve of its 40th anniversary, looked dim after the school could not find a replacement for its founder, Anahid Yacoubian, who retired from full-time work in 2007 but taught the advanced-level class to juniors and seniors until the end of school this spring.
Watertown’s school administrators considered dropping the program for lack of teachers, but after a frantic search found an instructor just two weeks before the start of classes on Sept. 8. Superintendent Ann Koufman-Frederick said officials were working out one-year contract last week.
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