Before the Americanization program, school-aged students, regardless of their language abilities, were placed in classes with native English speakers.
In the semester before the program was implemented, the Sunday Telegram published a photograph of four Armenian students with the caption, "Four arguments for the erection of a wing to the North School Building."
The paper called for a separate room and a "competent teacher" to accommodate "the increasing number of children annually coming to this school from foreign lands."
