• Elena Aguilar
• 02 Dec, 2016

Another student from Yemen struggled to learn English and—his older brother told me—was frustrated that he couldn’t transfer his understanding of math into English given that our numbers are written differently. Finally, there was a student from El Salvador who had attended only a couple of years of school at home. She had experienced extreme violence in her home country, as well as on the journey to the U.S. She had constant headaches, stomachaches, insomnia, and other indicators of trauma.
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