Listen To Part 5: Prince George’s Schools Help Undocumented Students Reunify With Parents, Adjust To New Life
This story is part of a larger project by Kavitha Cardoza, a participant in the 2019 National Fellowship, who is exploring the unprecedented challenges education professionals must address when they attempt to create and manage programs and services to support undocumented children.
Other stories in this series include:
How Prince George’s County Is Adapting To A Growing Number of Unaccompanied Children
Listen To Part 4: Prince George’s Schools Welcome Undocumented Students By Respecting Their Past
A hallway in Cooper Lane Elementary School in Landover Hills, Maryland.
Tyrone Turner / WAMU/Dcist
Many undocumented children come to the U.S. to rejoin a parent after years apart. But it’s not always the joyous reunion they expect. The child can feel resentful, like their parents abandoned them. The parent can see their child as ungrateful, not acknowledging all the sacrifices made to bring them here. And it’s often up to schools to find a way to help.
In the fifth and final part of our series on undocumented children, we look at reunification.
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