A class with high school social studies teacher Elizabeth Donovan is as much about a lesson, as it is real life.
“It’s so important for the kids to understand what’s going on and they’re also very passionate about it they also have family in Ukraine," she says.
In the New York City high school where Donovan teaches, Saint George Academy, the stress of family in the face of war is now common. Slava is one of four students now enrolled at Saint George who left the country since the Russian invasion started. “She has three young children, she also tried to get out, but it was no use. I don’t know where she is right now. I haven’t got any information from her. I don’t know if she, I don’t know if she got out, I don’t know where the kids are," Slava says.
Stasiw is a native of Detroit but has family still in Ukraine. The worry of their safety is the stress he has to live with.“I was really worried because I spent all my life with him," the 16-year old student says.
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