10-year-old Seattle boy enters school first time after 11 months of rescue efforts from tent life

The boy had been living in difficult conditions and had never experienced school before. (Representational photo. Credit: The Seattle Times) A 10-year-old boy in Seattle walked into a school for the first time last week after spending much of his childhood living in a tent in a North Seattle park. His first day of school came after an 11-month effort by a local nonprofit, neighbours and others to help him and his mother move out of life on the streets.The boy had been living in the tent with his mother, who was struggling with fentanyl addiction and was being sexually exploited, according to Kristine Moreland, executive director of The More We Love, a Kirkland-based organisation that works with homeless women and children, KRI reported. The boy's father had also refused offers of housing, food and other services.Moreland said the boy had been living in difficult conditions and had never experienced school before. “This young man has been in fight or flight since the day he was born,” she said. After his first day in the classroom, however, the boy gave the people who had been helping him a simple response. “I want to go back.”His journey towards school began in October last year, w...