Inshalllah
I was updating my resume the other day and tried to describe what it is I do. Mostly it falls under 'other duties as necessary.' For example: A few weeks ago a kid came in to register accompanied by his mother and a white-haired white man. This is pretty unusual, because we don't have a lot of white people in our school - especially not ones accompanying African students. As we learned more about the family, it became clear that this was a unique case that would take lots of time and advocating on behalf of this family. Very succinctly: the student who came to register was abandoned here in September by his father who drove him over the border and to his mother's apartment building, put him on the elevator and said 'She lives on the ____ floor. Good luck.' That is just one tiny part of the story. The student had been in his father's custody for 5 years prior, was schlepped around all over the world, and by all accounts, was treated pretty horribly by