We have a new student as of today. She doesn’t speak much English at all. The language she does speak — there’s only one person in the whole school who speaks it. Her sister. Who speaks less English than she does. What did four young ladies do when she arrived in my English class? Swarm around her with welcoming smiles and helped her the entire class period.

It was hard not to feel a little hope for humanity glancing over at them as they worked through today’s assignment.