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Sion welcomed two new Spanish teachers over the break.

Over winter break, two new Spanish teachers, Moira McAnany and Martha McClung, joined Sion’s faculty.

McAnany is a graduate of Sion’s 2014 class and currently teaches AP Spanish and Spanish II Honors. Before coming to Sion, she served as the World Language Department chair at St. Pius X High School. She views taking a foreign language class as a fun way to learn about experiences across the globe.

“I hope my students will see that learning a language is like joining an exclusive club with a secret code,” McAnany said. “Only those members of the bilingual/multilingual club can communicate.”

In her own words, McAnany feels she peaked in high school, so it’s no surprise that she’s ecstatic to be roaming the halls again. She loves seeing her old teachers in the halls, though she finds it tricky to call them by their first names. Her favorite part about being back is getting to visit all the spaces she couldn’t as a student.

“The weirdest part is definitely that none of the students know my Sion experiences,” McAnany said. “I have so many stories and fun times at Sion and none of my students know them yet”

Originally from Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, McClung moved to Kansas City in 2009. Before teaching at Sion, she taught at Park University, UMKC, William Jewell College and Rockhurst University. McClung currently teaches Spanish II and Spanish III ACCP. She hopes her students will gain a wider perspective of different cultures from learning Spanish and hearing her experiences.

“I hope that they feel confident when they travel to a Spanish speaking country and they are able to communicate with people and they learn about how people live,” McClung said. “There are different ways of thinking that they have.”

Since starting this semester, McClung anticipates learning more about her students and the Sion culture.

“Since I arrived here, I feel welcomed,” McClung said. “It’s nice to share different things with people.”

Multiple classified documents have been discovered in the private spaces of government officials.

Monday, Jan. 9, President Joe Biden’s personal attorneys revealed that classified documents from his time as vice president were found in his private office last fall, according to CNN. The documents were found in the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement by the president’s lawyers when preparing to vacate the office space in Washington D.C.

“On the day of this discovery, Nov. 2, 2022, the White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives,” Biden’s special counsel Richard Sauber said in a statement. “The Archives took possession of the materials the following morning.”

Since the discovery, the White House and Biden’s personal attorneys have been cooperating with the National Archives. Additionally, more classified documents were found in the president’s Wilmington, Delaware home following a 13-hour search by the Justice Department Friday Jan. 20, according to The New York Times. These documents were also immediately turned over to the National Archives.

It was also reported Jan. 24 that former Vice President Mike Pence had classified documents in his Indiana home. Pence has since turned the documents over to the FBI, according to CNN.