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Title: Kids 'zoned out' on remembrance
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2008-11-08 01:28:57
Canadian

[Arctic_Menace]

So Fucking Sad...

[Ripcat]

$1:

"It's because people don't like paying for them," said one Grade 10 teen.

I have always been under the impression that they are free and that no donation was required.

And what about the parents? Are they not promoting rememberance?

And what about our education system? If the quotes given in the article are indicative of all(or most) teens across the nation then we should be putting some of the blame for teens' ignorance there as well.

[Tricks]

I'm not surprised. I saw this at my highschool.

[Canadian_Mind]

Its a dollar or less, whatever the hell you want to donate to the old folks at the legion, the people who put their lives on the line for the cause that gave you your freedoms today.

[ridenrain]

$1:

This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;

Vrey little to no Canadian military history is taught in our schools. Somewhere in all the rhetoric of "peacekeeping we forgot that we have a long tradition as fighters and the strength and sacrifice are ignored. It's like we want to forget it.

[commanderkai]

I have to agree with the article, especially near the end. I've met people who think Canadians are in Iraq, in which I realize that have zero knowledge on current events. It's really...just sad in a way.

I will have to agree with riden too. With all the rhetoric of peacekeeping, we totally forgot to teach what the Canadian military was about, and that was making the peace, not keeping it. Remember, the saddest part is, they'll be voting in a few years.

[kitty]

Thinking back to when i was in high school, most people wore poppies. We wore uniforms and it seemed very natural to wear it on my blazer - or tie - or kilt.

[TattoodGirl]

We always wore the poppy in school and did something for rememberance day. My kids always have as well, the youngest is doing a brilliant project on Rememberance Day and he is in an alternate school. I think it also comes down to the parents to educate the kids and to encourage the schools to do something in honour.

[roger-roger]

Ya and they want to make Remembrance Day a statutory holiday? Give me a break the kids and parents would just stay home and treat it like any other stat. Sure most would watch a ceremony on TV, during the commercial from some inane TV show no less. Only way people are going to start recognising Remembrance Day is if we shut everything down during the moment of silence. Not just for one minute either I am talking about like an hour. All stores, government offices, schools ect everything should close down for an hour so that it more or less forces people to observe Remembrance Day. That is the only way people are going to start noticing it.

[roger-roger]

Quebec and Ontario are the ones where its not. In some of the other provinces its not a stat, but is considered a holiday, like in NFLd its a holiday but workers are not expected to receive time and a half for working it.

Or so I have been told.

[bootlegga]

It's not all that surprising, given that many 'social studies' (at least here in Edmonton anyways ) are quite left leaning. Loving military history, I couldn't wait ot take Grade 12 social, because the 20th century was a big part of it. My peacenik (she marched in a lot of anti-nuke demonstrations) teacher spent maybe 1 class on WW1, 1 class on WW2 and focussed the rest of the time on Communism, Capitalism and Totalitarianism. She even criticized me for bringing a book on WW2 to class.

To say I was disappointed was an understatement.

Still, I think Remebrance Day should be a national holiday. If it's not, then a unit on it should be part of the curriculum, with a field trip/watching the memorial on the 11th.

[ridenrain]

If anyone listens to CKNW-98 or similar BC radio stations, you will hear the BC Nurses union's radio salute to our vetrans. While I appreciate the gesture, they politicise it by telling us that these men fought for ideals like socalized medicin and not-for-profit hospitals.

BC Nurses union = FAIL.