Irene is among the inaugural class of students who began kindergarten in Fresno Unified’s Hmong Dual Language Immersion Program in 2018. Social studies and science texts are the most challenging because the Hmong language has “limited to almost non-existent” vocabulary when it comes to certain concepts, Lee says. Irene wants to return to Vang Pao to teach Hmong as a 6th grade, or even high school teacher, one day