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Harvard men’s tennis co-captain Cliff Nguyen proved yesterday that what you don’t know really can’t hurt...
...addition to teaching, Nguyen is also working on an immigration case. One of her students, Thuong, and her two older sisters are in Boston on a medical visa that expires in December, while their other two sisters are back in Vietnam. Their mother died in the fire that burned down their home. Nguyen says that the family lives in the countryside and does not have the financial means to maintain the same level of education they have here, so her goal is to extend their stay here to avoid disrupting their education. She meets with the PBHA directors to work...
Most of the students come from involved families, like Nguyen’s, that value education, which is part of what makes BRYE such a successful program, Nguyen says...
...families are extremely grateful and very supportive of us and want their children in BRYE,” Tsang says. The support from the community and the continuity lent to BRYE by its term-time tutoring program, in which Nguyen teaches many of the same students she has in the summer, helps BRYE bring the kids up to speed. According to Tsang, the kids are far behind in their literacy skills when they’re thrown into the Boston Public Schools, but since “they’re smart kids and really motivated to learn, it?...
...Nguyen can’t tell yet if any of the current students will be hosting sleepovers in the Quad themselves in a decade or so. The youngest beginners, whom Nguyen teaches, “don’t know what college means yet,” but she says she “tries to develop a love of learning for them.” Nguyen is too modest to credit herself with her students’ success and it’s hard to tell for sure whether a six-year-old can sit still long enough...