News coverage of police at Calais clearing feral woodland camps of would-be immigrants. Reports that the chief inspector of prisons and the children's commissioner have condemned the appalling treatment of children by the UK immigration system. A cloudy mirror held up to the harsh issues of humanity vs. legislation for social order.
I vividly remember our own particular fight as a whole school for justice and compassion for one of our own from that system. The children's incomprehension and the misery we felt as adults over our ultimate failure to protect a Kosovan family from deportation about seven years ago.
We campaigned under the banner of "Don't forget Jetmir." How could I? I last saw Jetmir when he was about 9, but his family phoned me every school holiday from Schongartenstrasse. The street of the beautiful garden. A German detention camp.
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