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Remembrance Day is celebrated in Montreal’s schools every year, as it is in schools across the country. Your kids probably come home wearing poppies and reciting “In Flanders Fields.” They may also look forward to a special school assembly with singing, poems and the reading of student essays.
But do your kids really understand what Remembrance Day is about?
Peace is a key concept taught in schools today, and they often adopt it as a central theme for Remembrance Day activities because it is more relevant to our children’s lives than the rituals from my own school days. In the primary grades especially, this strategy affords a busy teacher opportunities to reinforce…
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