Iginas Gasengayire spent his early years in refugee camps in Africa terrified of teachers; he never imagined he would become one.
“Teachers were really mean to us,” he said.
“We’d just get beat up all the time for no reason … so I was terrified by teachers.”
A marked difference in experience at school in Australia would eventually inspire Mr Gasengayire to become a teacher — “Mr Iggy” — and return to the high school where he arrived 14 years ago as a nervous student who spoke no English.
