Tag: Anti Defamation League

Seven wellness categories at the high school level were identified in which the district could be doing better: Physical Education, Substance Use, Mental Health, Commitment to School, Bullying, Diversity and Inclusion, Absenteeism and Commitment and Planning.

In 1972, the social studies department at Monument Mountain Regional High School created the very first Holocaust curriculum in the country for high school students.

What happens in schools is tied to what happens outside of them. How can we better engage everyone to support a broad cultural shift?

But as everyone agrees, any responses must be part of a larger community reckoning with societal problems that our schools reflect but do not create.

Participants also develop safe and practical prevention and response strategies to address prejudicial behaviors, including ways in which young people can become allies for peers who are targeted.

The most powerful words of the evening might have come from Talia Ben Sasson-Gordis, senior associate regional director at the Anti-Defamation League in Boston: "The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference."

Aren’t these opportunities perhaps the most important way we have to educate ourselves and our children, to nurture the love and dissolve the hate? Knowing your community has your back makes all the difference. 

Great Barrington — Wafting rumors of anti-Semitic incidents at Monument Valley Regional Middle School, a swastika spray-painted near the entrance of a house on...