By Karen Abrams
Co-founder STEM – Guyana
When our four children were very young, my husband and I had two priorities in educating them. We wanted them to be educated in a truly diverse and supportive environment and we wanted them to access a quality education. We identified the perfect international school, which was a relatively new institution with students representing more than 100 countries. Fifty per cent of the students attending the school were actually children of parents who sought asylum in the US from war torn countries around the world. Included were elementary school students from Bosnia, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Burundi, Burma, Somalia and many other regions of the world struggling with internal conflicts.
The international student population was balanced with fifty per cent of students born in the United States to parents who highly valued diversity or who were immigrants, like we were. Some would say that the
