Soapbox Cincinnati / May 17, 2011
It’s not yet 8:15 a.m. and nurse Barb Wiley-Kroner has already seen at least a half-dozen patients since her shift began less than an hour earlier.
There’s Sergio from Guatemala, an eighth grader, who follows Naomi, a first-grader from the Ukraine, through Wiley-Kroner’s office door at the Academy of World Languages (AWL), a Cincinnati Public magnet school in Evanston. AWL’s 610 students, in grades PreK through 8, come from nearly 40 countries and speak more than two dozen languages.