Dual language education

For this article, we spoke with Ms. Minako Oki Ahearn (class of 1982), founder of the Japanese-English dual language immersion charter school, International Charter Academy of Georgia. The connection between Minako and ICU precedes her own birth. Her father, Hideo Oki, served as an assistant to Swiss theologian Dr. Emil Brunner when he taught at ICU from 1953 to 1955. Just 10 years after the war, both of her parents were fortunate enough to receive scholarships from the United States to pursue studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where she was born. (Left photo below: Dr. Brunner and Mr. Hideo Oki, Right photo: Baby Minako and her parents […]