Now, she told the students, come illegally. Forge your documents, find a way across the border. Then, research real ads and find a place to live in Columbus. Figure out what it would cost, how to get food. Plan how to survive.
And then we get this...
At first, Yana didn't want to participate. She said as much to her father one night. She told him it was stupid, a bunch of busywork. He walked away from her and emerged from the basement a few minutes later with a faded box. It contained the paperwork from Yana's adoption from a Russian orphanage in 1994. Yana knew about it, but she'd never seen the papers.
Hey, Daddy!! You adopted your daughter. She didn't sneak in. Why are you acting like she did??
And then....
This is the fifth year that Vieyra has assigned this project to students in her Spanish V class...They say, 'That's such a hot topic. Are you sure you want to go there?' "...But she cautions that the point isn't to sway the students, only to teach them a little empathy.
Let me see. I am gonna get some empathy started, but I don't want to influence you.
Yeah. Uh huh. Sure. You bet. (That's sarcasm, folks.)
And now the truth finally emerges...
"At the very least, they'll certainly be the people who vote on them. Shouldn't they learn something about it all now?"
You bet, teacher. They should learn that people who come here illegally have committed a crime and should be deported.
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