September 21st, 2008
Georgia: Student in a Strange Land
Christina Shunnarah is a 7th-year kindergarten teacher at the International Community School (I.C.S.), in Decatur, Ga. It is a DeKalb County charter school founded in 2002 with about 100 students; it now serves over 400, from kindergarten through sixth grade. The school is unique in its mission to educate and integrate American-born and refugee children from all over the world — including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kurdistan, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq, Burundi and Burma.
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