Mooseheart: Sudanese Students Are 'Going to Live The American Dream'
Monday was an emotional day for the school, the Sudan-born students and their supporters as the IHSA declared the students eligible for athletics. School officials said their education was never in jeopardy.
While the overwhelming sentiment among some, regarding four South Sudanese students at Mooseheart and their ruling of ineligibility by the Illinois High School Association was “let them play” — to the young men themselves, there was another issue more central: “Can we stay?” And to that, Mooseheart Executive Director Scott Hart had a simple and emphatic response; the same response he would have given any of the other 210 boys and girls currently on-campus: Yes. Hart reiterated that statement late Monday evening when discussing the early-evening decision by the IHSA Board of Directors to reverse the ineligibility decree from IHSA Executive Director Marty Hickman — and to allow Mangisto Deng, Wal Khat, Akim Nyang and Makur Puou to be …
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De Bo Chet
11:49 pm on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Do you know what the word "cousin" means in the Sudan? Of course you don't. ANYONE with the same name is a "cousin". That would mean that the "Rifkin" family in Maylasia are your cousins and should pay for your "basket weaving" class. more ›