2025-02-26 14:18:46

A soccer ball, a T-shirt: teachers scramble to say goodbye to students fleeing under Trump

As families move away to avoid deportation, excruciating goodbyes leave teachers feeling ‘completely empty’A soccer ball covered in signatures from classmates. A handwritten letter telling a child of their worth. A T-shirt bearing a school emblem meant to remind a newcomer how much they were loved in a place they once called home.These are among the items teachers have given their multilingual learners – students who learn in more than one language – whose families fled their school districts rather than risk being detained by immigration agents. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/teachers-students-immigration-trump

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