Miami Hoshuko

{{Short description|Weekend school in Miami-Dade County, Florida}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{nihongo|'''Miami Hoshuko'''|マイアミ補習校|Maiami Hoshūkō}} is a supplementary Japanese school in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It holds classes in the First Baptist Church of Coral Park ({{langx|es|Iglesia Bautista de Coral Park}}) in Westchester, and it has its office in Doral.<ref>"[http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st12_fl/place/p1276075_westchester/DC10BLK_P1276075_001.pdf 2010 Block Census Map Westchester, Florida]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140502005620/http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st12_fl/place/p1276075_westchester/DC10BLK_P1276075_001.pdf Archive]). U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on April 30, 2014.</ref><ref name="DoralCityMap">"[http://www.cityofdoral.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=4016&Itemid=100 Map of the City of Doral]." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140502053825/http://www.cityofdoral.com/index.php?option%3Dcom_docman%26task%3Ddoc_download%26gid%3D4016%26Itemid%3D100 Archive]) City of Doral. Retrieved on September 16, 2012.</ref><ref name=Miamihoshu>"[http://www.miamihoshuko.org/ ホーム]" ("Home"). Miami Hoshuko. Retrieved on April 30, 2014. "借用校・校舎 Iglesia Bautisita de Coral Park 8755 SW 16 Street Miami, FL. 33165" and "補習校事務所 Miami Hoshuko, Inc., 3403 NW 82 Avenue, Suite 340 Miami, Florida, 33122"</ref>

{{As of|1997}} the school is governed by a board of directors made of four parents. In 1997 Cristina M. Ortega of the ''Miami Herald'' described the school as "part school, part social club", citing how parents were on the classroom premises while their children were instructed.<ref name=Ortega>{{cite news|last=Ortega|first=Cristina M.|title=Lessons to bridge cultural differences|newspaper=Miami Herald|place=Miami, Florida|date=1997-02-16|pages=1, 18–19}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94336390/ Clipping of first] and [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/94336404/ of second and third pages] from Newspapers.com.</ref>

==History== By January 1983, the Japanese community in the Miami area, including Broward County, sought to establish a weekend Japanese school. The expected number of children from Broward County was 20-25. The Florida Committee for the Establishment of a Japanese Language School formed to hammer out how to create a hoshuko. The initial plan was to create such a school in Broward County. Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale was a proposed location.<ref>{{cite news|last=Romano|first=Michael|title=Japanese seek own school|newspaper=Fort Lauderdale News|place=Fort Lauderdale, Florida|date=1983-01-20|pages=1B, 4B}} - [https://sun-sentinel.newspapers.com/clip/96578178/ Clipping of first] and [https://sun-sentinel.newspapers.com/clip/96578262/ of second page] from Newspapers.com.</ref> In February 1983 the plan was instead to open the school at David Fairchild Elementary School,<ref>{{cite news|last=Rodriguez|first=Anne|title=Japanese families plan school to save culture|newspaper=The Miami Herald|place=Miami, Florida|date=1983-02-03|page=7}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96598497/ Clipping] from Newspapers.com. This article mentions the same committee as "Japanese seek own school" so this is the same school.</ref> which is in an unincorporated area of the county.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://api.dadeschools.net/schoolwebsite/#!/?schoolId=1761|title=Home|publisher=David Fairchild Elementary School|accessdate=2022-02-27|quote=Address: 5757 SW 45TH STREET, MIAMI, FL 33155}} - The school is not in the Miami city limits.</ref>

Originally established in April 1983,<ref name=Rodrguezalphabet>{{cite news|last=Rodriguez|first=Anne|title=The Japanese alphabet|newspaper=The Miami Herald|date=1983-04-24|page=30}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96599549/for-miami-hoshuko/ Clipping] from Newspapers.com. As this is at David Fairchild Elementary this is the same school.</ref> Showa 58,<ref name=Miamitimeline>{{cite web|url=https://miamihoshuko.org/rekishi.html|title=補習校の沿革|publisher=Miami Hoshuko|accessdate=2022-02-25}}</ref> it was called the Florida Nihongo Gakko,<ref>{{cite news|title=Calendar, Florida Nihongo Gakko|newspaper=Miami Herald|date=1983-03-31|page=31}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96601017/for-miami-hoshuko/ Clipping] from Newspapers.com.</ref> with the official name Florida Japanese Language School<ref>{{cite news|title=East meets West Dade at Fairchild festival|newspaper=The Miami News|place=Miami, Florida|date=1983-05-20|page=1B}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96389343/for-miami-hoshuko/ Clipping] from Newspapers.com. It mentions the same Fairchild School.</ref> (フロリダ日本語補習校 ''Furorida Nihongo Hoshūkō'').<ref name=Miamitimeline/> Its initial enrollment was 40.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rodriguez|first=Anne|title=Language school opens Saturday|newspaper=The Miami Herald|place=Miami, Florida|date=1983-03-31|page=25}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96600145/for-miami-hoshuko/ Clipping] from Newspapers.com.</ref>

In 1986, it was renamed Miami Hoshu Jugyo Ko (マイアミ補習授業校), then received its current name in 1990 (Heisei 2). By 1993 (Heisei 5), it was holding classes in a rented facility,<ref name=Miamitimeline/> in the Kendall United Methodist Church,<ref name=Ortega/> now in Pinecrest but formerly in the Kendall census-designated place as of 1990.<ref> * 2022: {{cite web|url=https://kendallchurch.org/|title=Home|publisher=Kendall United Methodist Church|accessdate=2022-02-25|quote=7600 SW 104th Street, Miami, Fl 33156}} * 2001: {{cite web|url=http://kendallchurch.org/map_frames.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010406045610/http://kendallchurch.org/map_frames.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2001-04-06|title=Map & Location|publisher=Kendall United Methodist Church|date=2001-04-06|accessdate=2022-02-25|quote=7600 SW 104th Street Miami, FL 33156}} * {{cite web|url=https://www.pinecrest-fl.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/6339/636196383435470000|title=Official Zoning Map|publisher=Village of Pinecrest|accessdate=2022-02-25}} - Location of church indicated * {{cite book|title=1990 COUNTY BLOCK MAP (RECREATED): DADE County|work=1990 U.S. census|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|page=[https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st12_Florida/12025_Dade/90B12025_101.pdf 101]}} </ref>

In 1993, the Florida Nihongo Gakko had a campus in Coral Gables, with 23 students.<ref>{{cite news|last=Lum|first=Grace|title=Asian children learn lessons of life, culture|newspaper=The Miami Herald|place=Miami, Florida|date=1993-09-13|page=2B}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107142861/ Clipping] from Newspapers.com.</ref> In 1996, it was at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science on Virginia Key in Miami.<ref name=Ortega/><ref name=Miamitimeline/> The University of Miami was willing to allow the hoshuko to hold classes there as the building did not have weekend activity. When at Rosenstiel, the hoshuko used ten classrooms, a library, and a cafeteria facility. By 1997 the school established branch classes in Boca Raton.<ref name=Ortega/>

By 2002, its classes moved to their current location in Westchester.<ref name=Miamitimeline/>

In 2005, the hoshuko had students from Boca Raton and Weston.<ref name=Bridge>{{cite news|last=Cassola|first=Jose|title=Students are helping to bridge cultures|newspaper=The Miami Herald|place=Miami, Florida|date=2005-03-27|page=41}} - [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/56780895/the-miami-herald/ Clipping] from Newspapers.com.</ref>

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==Further reading== ; Article by former staff: * {{cite journal|last=服部|first=雅彦|title=マイアミの熱風とスコールにうたれて! : 初代派遣教員の補習校づくり(第6章学校経営)|journal=在外教育施設における指導実践記録|issue=27|pages=93–96|year=2004|language=ja}} - [https://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110006624875 Profile at] CiNii.

==External links== * [https://www.miami-hoshuko.org Miami Hoshuko] {{Education in Miami-Dade County, Florida}} {{Japanese weekend schools in the United States}} {{Westchester, Florida}} {{Doral, Florida}} {{Miami}}{{Kendall, Florida}}

Category:1983 establishments in Florida Category:Asian-American culture in Florida Category:Educational institutions established in 1983 Category:Japanese-American culture in Florida Category:Schools in Miami-Dade County, Florida Category:Schools in Miami Category:Doral, Florida Miami Category:Kendall, Florida Category:Westchester, Florida