In an effort to get out of MS-13, a teenager wrote a confession to his teacher, who gave it to the school resource officer, who gave it to the FBI, who gave it to ICE, who is sending him back to El Salvador... to die at the hands of MS-13. Damn.https://features.propublica.org/ms-13/a-betrayal-ms13-gang-police-fbi-ice-deportation/ …
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This is a horrifying story. It makes me ask myself, if I were the teacher, what would I have done? What could I have done?
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But it seems as if whatever she did, he'd be doomed. If she said nothing, he could end up dead someday and she'd never forgive herself for not reporting what he wrote and trying to help. Even if her help inadvertently made things worse.
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There are lots of things a teacher can do to support a student in thus case that doesn't involve snitching. You don't know? Former gang members make the best community organizers, and the best mentors.
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Easier said than done. This is a student who killed someone once. This is a student whose writing was a cry for help. It goes against the grain of every decent educator on the planet to read something like what he wrote and to say nothing and do nothing.
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I'm gonna suggest that there were options other than "fink on a child who confided in you" and "nothing"
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