Imet a man in the sauna at the downtown Duluth YMCA whose daughter is enrolled in the Misaabekong Ojibwe immersion program at Lowell Elementary School. She wants to connect more deeply with her Ojibwe-speaking grandmother.

My wife and I have a great-nephew and great-niece, siblings who have been enrolled in a Spanish-language immersion elementary school in Prior Lake, Minnesota, for several years. Every time we visit, they read to us in Spanish, and each time they are more comfortable with the pronunciation, the accent and rhythm of the language, and general comprehension. They are thriving academically and call their new second language their superpower.

There is crossover between language immersion and overall learning.

It seems more than a little ironic that our Duluth school system

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