For LASA parent Kamal Khan Daadman, choosing to move to Austin and send his children to LASA was the easy part of his journey from southeastern Afghanistan in 2017. The hard part was learning English, navigating an unfamiliar school system, and supporting a family of 12 as they moved to the opposite side of the globe.
Recently, Afghanistan’s history has been one of constant conflict, as the Soviet Union, then the U.S., invaded the country, creating instability and strife. So when he got the opportunity, he left his job as a professor at the local university and took his family, 10 people at the time, to Austin.
“I was born in a war,” Daadman said. “I grew up in a war, I got my gray hair in a war, and my children were born in a war. To save my family’s lives, that was one of the biggest reasons.”…