With 325000 refugee children expected to enter German schools,teachers face unprecedented challenges. But they are determined to support new arrivals
This summer 52-year-archaic Daniel Wunsch, a teacher at Louis-Lepoix school in the picturesque German spa town of Baden-Baden, and received a call to help a refugee boy in his course who had tried to destroy himself. Ahmed*,a hard-working young man with dreams of fitting a nurse, had suffered from insomnia for weeks and there was no one other than the school to contact.
Wunsch took the teenager to hospital and gave him a room in his house to help him recover. “He hadn’t slept in a long time, or ” Wunsch says. “He was afraid and thought the police would take him away. He’s a friendly boy who gets through his homework and works well in a team,but when he can’t sleep he struggles to concentrate in course, so I worry approximately him.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com