Amy Neff Roth and Alex Cooper, Observer-Dispatch
Published
11:18 am UTC Feb. 17, 2021
Amy Neff Roth and Alex Cooper, Observer-Dispatch
Published
11:18 am UTC Feb. 17, 2021
Note: This story is part of the third installment of Learning Curve, a yearlong series of stories following six families whose children are attending public schools across New York state during the pandemic. Start from the beginning here.
Eighty-eight-year-old Jay Baw spent much of his life as a refugee.
But he s finally found peace, he says, in the Utica home where six of his seven grandchildren spend their days taking online classes.
Jay Baw was a refugee first in his native Myanmar, then in a Thai refugee camp before moving to the United States in 2011. Asked about his village in Myanmar, Jay Baw speaking in Karen as granddaughter Kler Moo K’tray Paw, 21, translates recalls a life in which soldiers might show up at any time, taking the villagers’ food and sometimes assaulting them if they didn