Less than a year after Syrian refugee kids began enrolling by the dozen at Ottawa’s Carson Grove Elementary School, Julie Hanna, a Grade 5 teacher there, found herself standing for O Canada with a group of them at an Ottawa Senators game. A local charity had given the school a block of seats for the Sens’ Feb. 9 NHL game against the Dallas Stars at the Canadian Tire Centre. As Hanna scanned the excited faces of her students, she saw that a boy named Abdullah, in particular, was really belting it out. “And I choked up,” she says. “These kids, …read more
Source: Macleans
