A graduate of our international school here in Hong Kong now teaches eighth grade in a poor, inner-city school in Baltimore, Maryland. Randy contacted a colleague and me earlier in the year to see if we would be willing to have our students swap short stories. We just got our first batch of stories from inner-city Baltimore. To say that the kids in Baltimore lead very different lives than our students here at our private Christian school in Hong Kong would be an understatement.
That point was driven home when one of my students stopped midway through the story that she was reading, called me over, and asked “Mr. VanNoord, what’s ‘crack?’”
-Jack
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