When Anita Baturin first started teaching at Vernon’s Beairsto Elementary School in 2002 and held her first dragon parade, leading her new students through the hallways under a brightly coloured cloth dragon, it wasn’t quite like the Lunar New Year celebrations she remembered growing up.
Only one thing was off: the school was dead silent.
“It felt like we were attending a funeral,” Baturin laughed.
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