Immigration rally was a valuable lesson for students

Immigration rally was a valuable lesson for students Immigration rally in the recent controversy over the National Mall High School in Montgomery County in Rockville, Maryland. School officials allowed students to participate in the march for the request and the request for "service" hours of experience. The decision to deactivate the temperament of the parents of otherwise-healthy, which flooded the district offices with angry phone calls. They wanted an explanation. After all, the service is to help the elderly at home or serving lunch in the refuge or raising funds for your charity. It is not a question of gathering the parties in a political debate. Or is it? Not sure of myself, I decided to visit the Maryland State Department of Education site, to get their share of history. I discovered something interesting - Maryland does not require the service to all. What we need is "service leaing student or SSL. Their site specifically states that SSL is not the same as volunteering, community service or work-study practices. What is it? SSL is an activity that meets the basic criteria 7th First, fill a recognized need in the community. This may be direct (meals), an indirect action (money), or a promotion, promotion is defined as "education (ITA) for others on a particular theme, with the aim to eliminate cause of a particular problem. "The activity must be connected to the curriculum, help develop the student's responsibility to establish community partnerships, and to equip students with the knowledge and skills. The student must plan for the future of business and must write a paper on the experience. Since participation in the rally for immigration to meet the needs of an SSL? I think so. The event served to educate the American public through the generation of debate on immigration, and the purpose of the meeting was the elimination of the problems of immigrants, therefore, the promotion criteria are met. The rally was certainly linked to the curriculum of studies on immigration. Students who witnessed the amendment of the Bill of Rights in Action. For those of you that you forget to write your own curriculum, I would like to upgrade memory, Congress is not respecting the right of an institute of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or press, or the right of people to assemble peaceably and to petition the govement for an appeal of grievances. Actively exercising the right to assemble peacefully, the students gained a stronger sense of the first amendment, which would have gained from reading is limited to words in a textbook. But as far as the other criteria? If the expression of students develop responsibility, community partnerships, and to equip students with some 'knowledge and skills? Again, I think so. The students were to attend the event, under the supervision of CASA of Maryland, an advocacy group for low-income Latinos in DC metropolitan area. Through his involvement with the CASA, the students were exposed to other CASA provides services such as English and citizenship classes and financial skills. The last two criteria are met. Students for the activity to come into contact with the house and arranging the time to attend the event, and is expected to complete a written report that reflects on his experience. In my opinion, the immigration rally readily complied with the requirements of service leaing for students, as defined by the Maryland State Department of Education. So, in reality, the anger parents should complain to the State if they wish to defend the clause removed, not the local school district. Meanwhile, if the parents are opposed to the demonstration, which have banned the participation of their children to and from a different experience. I suspect that the real problem is that the complaint in accordance with parents CASA for reforming immigration. Perhaps these parents disagree with the public in the mass of illegal immigrants. Perhaps they feel should be illegal to be captured and sent south. Perhaps you feel a wall be built along the border Mexico-USA. What is good. Without doubt the merit of the views of our national debate on immigration reform continues. But the parents of opinion on matters of immigration is not the point here. The point is to teach our children that we have the right to peacefully express our opinion the United States of America, without fear of imprisonment or execution. This is a right that should never be taken lightly. It is a right that people in China and Iran and North Korea hunger. This is a right that may be extinct in our country if not to teach and defend it. COPYRIGHT 2006 Mike Patrick Jr, MD - This article is available for free distribution. Some restrictions apply. Please visit our publishers pediascribe.com for a complete list of guidelines to reprint.