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[mockingbirdq]

I can't sleep...

Just wanted to note a sad anniversary: It has been ten years since Matthew Shepard was murdered.

Hmm... I'm working with my students on domestic violence this month, and obviously drunk driving last month - but maybe we can spend next month focusing on tolereance and hate crimes? I'd like to work it in somehow.

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[kracken.livejournal.com]

It's alwsys good to teach about the holocost and the attempt to exterminate Native Americans. It used to be required in school.

[mockingbirdq.livejournal.com]

It still is at our school. I've never found a good text to work with students on the Native American experience, but I usually speak about prejudice towards Native people around Thanksgiving. My Mexican kids are really familiar with the idea since Natives from South America were treated pretty horrendously as well.

I also cover the Japanese Internment during WWII in spring. It's a good example of government changing the rules and showing prejudice, which many of my students are familiar with. About 1/2 my students are illegal, and I'm always scared schools will lose protection or be forced to report students.