13yo Ukrainian Refugee Robbed And Abused at San Francisco Middle School, Wants to Return HomeChris MenahanInformationLiberation Feb. 21, 2023 |
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A 13-year-old Ukrainian refugee who fled to America wants to return to her home country after being robbed and abused by other students while attending Marina Middle School in San Francisco.
From San Francisco Chronicle, "She fled the war in Ukraine but failed to find a safe haven in S.F. middle school": Everything Yana, a 13-year-old Ukrainian refugee, knew about public schools in the United States was what she had seen on television or in the movies, often idyllic settings where teenage conflict and angst ironed itself out by the end."Normal," indeed. Not long after, Yana said, she became the target. [...] Yana just wants to go back to her hometown in central Ukraine, back to the only school she knew before the war, even as her mom and aunt have started to research camps and other programs in San Francisco to occupy the summer months.Hilariously, the San Francisco Chronicle tried to blame the violence on "students reeling from their own tragedies," ranging from the "loss of loved ones in the pandemic" to "poverty" and "homelessness." They said what schools really need is more "resources" to invest in "prevention rather than punishment" but "given the pandemic-fueled backlog of need, there aren't enough resources to address the problems, let alone try to prevent them." Other refugees from Ukraine have told similar stories to Yana's.
Little do they know this is the future they'll share with the West if they "win" the war and join the NATO alliance. [Header image of Marina Middle School by Adam Fagen via Flickr commons, cropped, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, cropped thumbnail of Yana by Stephen Lam/The Chronicle, overlaid.] Follow InformationLiberation on Twitter, Facebook, Gab, Minds and Telegram. |