I think it's a great idea to teach human rights as I actively do in my World History/Civics classes at the 9th grade level. However, the media and society are tough things to go against and I'm not quite sure human rights are at the forefront of these two entities. Moreover, I believe for a school to teach this effectively, the teachers -all of them- must be united and teaching in a school of over 100 faculty I see it as a difficult task - not impossible but when you have certain teachers making homophobic slurs and other such comments it's a hard battle to fight; yet, I haven't stopped fighting it yet. I am doing some things in a service learning context next school year with regard to child labor and sweatshops. If anyone can get to a service learning conference it's well worth it. I also started an Amnesty International student group this past year and it's amazing to me the knowledge/awareness that many people don't have with regard to this organization or human rights abuses in general. Keep the faith! Amy Schuler, Superior High School, Wisconsin ======== North American Human Rights Education listserv ======== Send mail intended for the list to <hr-education-na@hrea.org>. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/hr-education-na/markup/maillist.php If you have problems (un)subscribing, contact <owner-hr-education-na@hrea.org>. **You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote or re-post this item, but please retain the original and listserv source.
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