IRVING — At Brandenburg Elementary school, it's not just the children who are taking classes but their parents too.

Every Thursday night, as part of the Latino Family Literacy Project, parents and children come to school to sit down and enjoy a community meal and stay for some additional enrichment — the students participate in some fun learning activities while the parents join in learning either English or Spanish.

The school implements a dual-language curriculum during the day and decided to do the same for parents when it was discovered that many of them wanted to learn another language.

By far, the Spanish-speaking parents wanting to learn English is a bigger class on Thursday nights but there is a also a sizeable group of English-speaking parents who want to learn Spanish.

The program runs for 10 weeks and in addition to polishing language skills, the program helps parents establish a family reading routine.