This year there are six students in the Chinese five class, and they are coincidentally the last Chinese five class that Hudsonville High School will see due to the fact that Chinese classes were taken out of the middle school language options. This was a hard blow for the Chinese five students knowing that they will not have anyone to follow in their footsteps.

Though Chinese has been taken out of the middle school, Spanish has been thriving due to the fact that the majority of the students believe that Spanish is comparably much easier than Chinese or German. Most students who choose to do Chinese for their language credit start doing the class two or three years into high school so the want to do Chinese before that time becomes lower.

Though many people may not realize it, Chinese provides students with greater opportunities to have a higher paying job ( such as translating or more professional teaching) or just simply get a job in general. Spanish is a great language to take, but the majority of the students who take the class don’t end up doing much with the language afterwards. Not only that but because Spanish is the second most spoken language in America making the job opportunitys more vast and less needed. Chinese, on the other hand, is a language that pushes people to find their limits but is easier than most people make it seem. The other plus side to it is that almost every word in Chinese has a strong correlation to the english meaning or the way the english and chinese fit together makes sense but most students is unwilling to try chinese because of the belief that the chinese language is difficult.

Because of the cuts from the middle school in the language department, there will no longer be any high level or AP-like Chinese class in the high school making it less opportunistic for future Chinese students.“I wish that more people would want to learn Chinese. It's fun and way easier than everyone thinks,” said Jinnae Pulaski

In the future, the hope for the language students is that Chinese will be in higher demand, but for now they will keep promoting it and hoping for a more productive outcome.