War is shaping a generation of Ukrainian schoolchildren and teachers
The children of School 17 are on their way to class when an air raid siren sounds. Cheerful chaos ensues. No one seems afraid; alerts happen often, and everyone knows what to do. The younger kids head for the basement shelter, a bunkerlike space spruced up with colored lights and bright paint. The upper grades congregate in a ground-level hallway whose windows are covered by concrete slabs, transforming the once-airy corridor into a dark but safe tunnel.
War is part of the routine for the teachers and students in Irpin, a Kyiv suburb that gained fame last year as the site of atrocities committed by the Russian troops.… Seguir leyendo »