Sudden influx of refugees strains Halifax school, sparks call for federal funds
Julie Jebailey, the school's only Arabic-speaking teacher, translates as Mohamad talks about his new life. "Sometimes English is hard," he says.
HALIFAX -- In a bustling classroom filled with streams of Arabic and English, two brothers are studies in concentration as they write out the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood.
Ahmad, 10, and Mohamad Al Marrach, 9, are among 41 Syrian children who arrived at Joseph Howe Elementary School in February, suddenly expanding the small, inner-city school's population by a third from its existing 146 students.
The bright, colourful classroom -- its name was recently added in Arabic on the door -- is the end of a long journey for the brothers. They recall moving quickly with their parents when bombs started falling on their town, and prefer their new school to one that occasionally lost power in Lebanon.
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