{"id":1270,"date":"2007-12-24T15:48:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T20:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2007\/12\/24\/georgia-multicultural-school-many-students-refugees\/"},"modified":"2007-12-24T15:51:53","modified_gmt":"2007-12-24T20:51:53","slug":"georgia-multicultural-school-many-students-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2007\/12\/24\/georgia-multicultural-school-many-students-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"georgia multicultural school, many students refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/24\/us\/24cnd-school.html?ex=1356152400&amp;en=b8d0afcd7ad381cc&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">Georgia School Melds a World of Differences &#8211; New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The fact that we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have anything in common is what we all have in common,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Shell Ramirez, an American parent with two children at the school&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The mission,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ms. Thompson [one of the founders of the school] said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153was never to create an enclave for refugees only because that would just separate them more.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harvey Clark, whose son Zade is in the fifth grade, is a veteran of the first Gulf War and a hard-core <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/n\/national_association_of_stock_car_auto_racing\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\" title=\"More articles about National Assn of Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR)\">Nascar<\/a> fan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re getting exposed to cultures that they normally would not be exposed to except in National Geographic,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Clark said of the American children. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Instead of my boy having to go off to war to meet foreign people, he can do it here in town.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This reminds me of Ryan being stoked by What is the What, which I believe is partially set in Atlanta, hearing Kara Walker on Art 21 talking about moving from California to the Atlanta area and realizing what it meant to be a black woman in America, and thinking about multicultural education with regards to Florence and Oona.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]refugee, education, multiculturalism[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia School Melds a World of Differences &#8211; New York Times: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The fact that we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have anything in common is what we all have in common,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Shell Ramirez, an American parent with two children at the school&#8230;. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The mission,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ms. Thompson [one of the founders of the school] said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153was never to create&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2007\/12\/24\/georgia-multicultural-school-many-students-refugees\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">georgia multicultural school, many students refugees<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[106,275,391],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-education","tag-multiculturalism","tag-refugee","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-ku","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}