On Thursday May 7th, I went to the showing of the documentary about the the immigration raid in Postville, that happened a year ago today. The documentary was titled abUSed. We only got to see a 30 minutes of what the director had put together so far, but of those 30 minutes the film seems like it will be a great success. The film is comprised of multiple interviews of people in community that were effected by the raid. The film also takes the viewer step by step, hour by hour of what happened the day of the raid. I think that the story of the Postville is one that needs to be heard, so I am glad that this film is being made.
So what does the Postville raid have anything to do with being a teacher? Well, for starters, many of the students and children that were effected by the raid were in school when the raid took place. In the documentary, a teacher is interviewed about what happened that day a year ago and what has changed in the schools because of it. The teacher said that the students that are still in her class that have parents that are in jail or that have been deported, have bad days and good days. As teachers we need to know how to support students in tragedies, so they can some day be the solution to them. One of the students in her class wants to become a lawyer because of what happened to his mom during the raid and his teacher is determined to make that happen.
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