In a tearjerker of a story/photo essay from the New York Times, students at a Kyiv school for kids ages 6 to 18 continue to show up and learn even amid blackouts and interruptions from missile strikes causing them to evacuate to the basement shelter. There’s even pics of the younger kids having a pajama party in a darkened classroom on the last day before their winter break.
Missing from the story are parents complaining over non-existent critical race theory lessons, books being banned for being written by Black authors, litter boxes, and teachers being sued for acknowledging gay people exist. The children are however threatened by armed maniacs empowered by a Kremlin-backed organization. Though here in the United States it’s the NRA and in Ukraine it’s the actual Russian army and Wagner Group, they do tragically have that in common.