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tblue37

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2. I had a brilliant Iranian student in my college class in 2017 Spring term after the Muslim ban was instituted. She was

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 01:22 PM

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afraid to visit her family during summer break b/c she figured she wouldn't be allowed back to school.

She was so good a student that she had received several offers from other schools, so we lost her after that term--she went home for summer break, and then to a Canadian university when Fall semester rolled around.

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