AFT President Randi Weingarten recently visited three schools in Warsaw, Poland, and met with teachers, students and parents from Ukraine.
“The Ukrainian teachers really want to go back home,” Weingarten told Education Week. “And many of the kids really want to be back home.”
She added, “The [Ukrainian] kids spoke very good English. And one young man got up and said, ‘Please tell American students to be grateful for what they have. One day I had this, and the next day I didn’t.’ And one of the other students who was leading me around said, ‘Did you see what happened in Ukraine? Did you see what they did to us?’ ”
Read more of her interview with Education Week here.