![]() ![]() At lunchtime, he was dismayed when other Chinese boys moved away from him. He didn’t speak much English, but he had been a good student in Beijing. His parents had come to the United States from China to work in his uncle’s restaurant. The teacher immediately paired her with a Chinese student and asked her to help translate, not realizing that Hyun-Ju’s grandparents were Korean or that she had been born in the United States and spoke only English.Īcross town, Gao entered the 10th grade. Her family had relocated from Pittsburgh, so her father could teach at the local university. He spoke no English.įive miles down the road in a middle school, Hyun-Ju entered a classroom. Through a refugee program, Poh had just arrived in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was born in Thailand after his mother and sister escaped war and ethnic persecution in Myanmar. On a Monday morning in September, ESL teacher Susan Azzu found she had a new student. ![]()
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