Hispanics seek the good life in suburbs - St. Louis

Just a few miles from some of the county’s newest and most expensive homes, the alphabet lessons begin promptly at 7 p.m. in a fluorescent-lit classroom inside First Baptist Church of O’Fallon.

“We are going to go over our ABCs here,” says O’Fallon resident Irma Ordonez to her class of seven Hispanic students. Most are adults, but some are as young as 10 and toting stuffed animals.

To Ordonez, a retired kindergarten teacher and a seventh-generation American, teaching English to Hispanic immigrants is all about taking “baby steps.”"*

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