The high school showed a video this morning on the troubles in Uganda. The children being kidnapped and brainwashed, given guns and being told to kill people. A few students found this video and are pushing the rest of the student body to help.
One of my kids is in a class that is making it a requirement to do a poster in hopes of raising awareness and getting help for these children. Apparently, a few of the kids in the class do not think this is fair, and are actually refusing to do this project, and even offered to do a poster on individual rights instead.
I was a little shocked when I heard this.
I was shocked they showed this documentary, since our schools are extremely strict (school nurses are not even allowed to lay a finger on any student), and shocked that a project is being required to persuade help, for the same reason as above.
Though I listened to one of my kid's friends explain why he didn't support this movement, I had to say, it was an ignorant statement and reason he made. I might be shocked that this project is on the ciriculum now, but I do not agree with the things I heard this student say, and I'm glad that a teacher is asking them to do this, personally. I was appauled at the way this student was talking about these poor children, though. When I tried to explain things to him, he completely rubbed it off as rubbish and said it's best left up to the country it's happening in, and that was that.
I felt no need to carry on a debate with a hard-headed teenager, for one. But especially an overly-privileged hard-headed teenager, only concerned about the well-being of himself.
As parents, how would you feel if your child, being required to do a project just informing and slightly persuading help for people in a third-world country, with no food or clean water, refused to do so because they felt that that country should deal with it's own problems? My own child does not feel this way, but I honestly don't know what I would say if any of them did; I'd obviously be upset, but we as parents always push for individuality and want children to form opinions on their own. Do you think it would be difficult to deal with a child with this mentality? And what do you think about a school showing these documentaries that don't fall short of the save the children fund commercials, they just go into greater detail...and even go so far as to tell the students they have to make posters to raise awareness?
One of my kids is in a class that is making it a requirement to do a poster in hopes of raising awareness and getting help for these children. Apparently, a few of the kids in the class do not think this is fair, and are actually refusing to do this project, and even offered to do a poster on individual rights instead.
I was a little shocked when I heard this.
I was shocked they showed this documentary, since our schools are extremely strict (school nurses are not even allowed to lay a finger on any student), and shocked that a project is being required to persuade help, for the same reason as above.
Though I listened to one of my kid's friends explain why he didn't support this movement, I had to say, it was an ignorant statement and reason he made. I might be shocked that this project is on the ciriculum now, but I do not agree with the things I heard this student say, and I'm glad that a teacher is asking them to do this, personally. I was appauled at the way this student was talking about these poor children, though. When I tried to explain things to him, he completely rubbed it off as rubbish and said it's best left up to the country it's happening in, and that was that.
I felt no need to carry on a debate with a hard-headed teenager, for one. But especially an overly-privileged hard-headed teenager, only concerned about the well-being of himself.
As parents, how would you feel if your child, being required to do a project just informing and slightly persuading help for people in a third-world country, with no food or clean water, refused to do so because they felt that that country should deal with it's own problems? My own child does not feel this way, but I honestly don't know what I would say if any of them did; I'd obviously be upset, but we as parents always push for individuality and want children to form opinions on their own. Do you think it would be difficult to deal with a child with this mentality? And what do you think about a school showing these documentaries that don't fall short of the save the children fund commercials, they just go into greater detail...and even go so far as to tell the students they have to make posters to raise awareness?