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<p>Stephen Haff runs a school in a poor, occasionally violent, part of Brooklyn, in New York, called Bushwick. The neighbourhood has a big immigrant community, not all of it legal, mainly Spanish-speaking. The school system isn't equipped to deal with these kids, some of whom arrive with no English at all. Stephen is a graduate of Yale in theatre. He might have been expected to pursue a relatively glittery life, but he left theatre and chose to teach in one of those schools that New York teachers seem to dread. He taught, but he also set up a theatre troupe whose ghetto version of <em>Romeo and Juliet</em> ended up touring the world.</p><p>He was a very successful teacher, but the public school system has difficulty dealing with someone who doesn't fit the mould. So he left and set up his own tiny school.</p><p>Stephen is so concerned with "transparency" that the first thing he did was to install a huge plane of glass on the front wall, so the neighbourhood could see exactly what was going on inside this little schoolroom. The students came, more and more of them: some after their regular school, some were older kids who had given up on school or school had given up on them. Before too long there were around 30 students; and soon the older students were helping the younger ones. The world on the streets was tough, but here there was a benign atmosphere, very peaceful, mostly reading and writing. He named the school "Still Waters in a Storm".</p><p>Imagine the student who was at the bottom of her reading group at school, as she returns after three months to class and discovers she is now at the top of the reading group. And imagine the very shy boy who can speak no English, who in three months can stand up in a room and read to his fellow students. The children are so happy to be there; the school is the best part of their lives. Stephen, meanwhile, lives on food stamps and the support of others who try to raise money for him. He really is a great man.</p><p>• Peter Carey's <em>The Chemistry of Tears</em> is published on 5 April by Faber</p>
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<h1>My hero: Stephen Haff by Peter Carey</h1>
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<p>Good choice. Perhaps Peter will use his power and influence as a great name to get Mr Haff some serious funding?</p>
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<p>How about a genius grant?!</p>
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