Posted on 11/21/2015 9:39:37 AM PST by Rusty0604
A University of Texas graduate student is calling for more Arabic speaking tutors to help an influx of refugees from Iraq and Syria at Austin Independent School District.
Dana El Kurd volunteers twice a week at Anderson High School and said the students she helps are struggling to adjust to a new culture and language.
"There are students who have been in refugee camps for five or six years waiting for this kind of official permission," El Kurd said.
Part of the problem she said is that the majority of the classes the refugee students attend are in English. "Nobody speaks Arabic and a lot of them are kind of lost," El Kurd said.
Many consider dropping out because of the lack of support and on top of that, El Kurd said refugee students report they are also being bullied. "I don't think that a lot of their peers know where they are coming from so they are calling them things like ISIS and these people are escaping ISIS so it's very difficult for them," she said.
El Kurd said more volunteers would help the students adjust and be successful at school but she hopes the district will beef up support as more Syrian refugees will be settled in Texas in the coming years. "There is a humanitarian need and we need to address it," she said.
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That's how it worked with Vietnamese and Mexican kids.
But the way we do it here milks more money out of taxpayers and puts the money into gov’t employees.
I was at a northside public HS in Austin about 5 years ago (the day of the big hail storm) and they all looked and sounded like foreigners.
See my post #20.
How about insisting that the sons of the Sand Devils who will not fight for their own freedom learn to speak English?
This won’t make you feel any better, but hummus is prominently on display of the school cafeterias in our neck of the woods. “Asian” kids are all thin as rails.
They made her teach it because she spoke both languages.
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