Australian school gives hope to traumatized refugee students

A high school in Sydney's southwestern suburbs is becoming known as an enclave for refugee students who have escaped the ravages of war in their homelands.More than four-fifths of the students of Fairfield High School were refugees, many of whom are still suffering severe trauma related to their experiences in countries such as Iraq and Syria, which were controlled by the Islamic State.Every teacher should understand, "trauma impacts on learning and trauma impacts on behavior," explained Sherin Nair, a refugee student support officer at the school of roughly 1,100 students. Predicting when …READ FULL ARTICLE