Immigrants find education, hope at East High School

Kids with 35 languages, some not knowing how to sit at a desk or hold a pencil, are all learning to speak English and make it through high school successfully. Amazing!   - - Donna Poisl

BY JOE ROBERTSON, The Kansas City Star

Of course it would take monstrous forces to drive families from their homelands.

These are some of the things immigrant students in Kansas City’s East High School have seen:
A hoodlum’s gun in Juarez, Mexico, aimed in the face of 14-year-old Pamela Martinez’s pregnant mother.

Unremitting civil war in Somalia that chased 17-year-old Fardowsa Mursal into a Kenyan refugee camp for the first 14 years of her life.
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