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Article: Charter recruits refugees
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2009
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Two flies play tag around Ali Abdiraham's head. One buzzes to a
stop on the collar of his nearly new, navy polo shirt, but the 8-
year-old doesn't flinch. Ali's attention -- and that of the rest of
his family of eight (minus the baby, who is busily munching on Dad's
keys) -- is riveted on the homework assignment in front of him.
Dad smiles anxiously as a woman from Ali's school explains,
slowly, stressing her enunciation, that a parent should point at
each word as the third-grader reads it aloud. Mom nods in
affirmation, but she looks uncertain. Even Ali is a little confused -
- and he has to translate the conversation for his parents, who came
to West Valley City from Kenya as refugees ...