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Mt Annan High School hearts human rights

There's a real passion that emerges when students hear about human rights and start getting involved.
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Bethany Grace [Former Student and founder of the Mount Annan High Human Rights Action Group]: “The Mount Annan Human Rights Action Group started last year with the vision of Dr. Le Cornu and then a few legal studies students and a few history students started to meet on a regular basis.” Katrina Theodoratos [Teacher, Mount Annan High School]: “I get together with the Human Rights Action Group every Thursday during recess at school but also when any interesting articles or issues about human rights pop up we have a Facebook group and I tend to post links to particular issues that they might be interested in and try to create some kind of discussion from that as well.” Bethany Grace: “I think that a great idea in making the community want to be involved in human rights action and human rights awareness is to make things fun and don’t necessarily make everything sad and depressing and that’s a problem, more that this is a solution, and one of the ways that we tried to engage our community was by running an event where we had local schools involved and there was bands and live music and lots of young people really wanted to be involved in that.” Daryl Le Cornu [Former Teacher, Mount Annan High School]: “At this school and other schools I’ve been at I’ve found that when students do hear about human rights and they get information and they start getting involved there is a real passion that emerges and I’m just quite excited by what I’ve seen at this school, particularly the students really getting involved and having a real interest and wanting to do something concrete.” Katrina Theodoratos: “I think human rights are very important. It really takes a teacher to be passionate about a particular issue and to broach that subject with the students and make it very real to them and talk about the solutions to the problem and not just focus on the problem.”

A group of students and teachers at Mt Annan High School teach us a thing or two about stirring enthusiasm for human rights change.

The school's Human Rights Action Group meets every week during recess and shares human rights information through their Facebook page, where they discuss and debate human rights issues and start thinking about solutions to what's happening all around us.  

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