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’t listen.