Editor's Note: This article was written and submitted by representatives of the Merrick School District.
Fifth graders at Levy-Lakeside Elementary School commemorated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by studying various Americans who have been “Defenders of Justice” throughout our nation’s history.
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Students worked in pairs, reading biographies and creating cubes that illustrated the work of famous individuals such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Louis Sockalexis, Cesar Chavez, Marian Anderson, Hank Greenberg, Abraham Lincoln and more. Then the groups shared their findings with other pairs, comparing and contrasting the obstacles their respective subjects faced, as well as their accomplishments.
As a culminating activity, students sang, “What Can One Little Person Do?” and shared character traits of their own that might help them become our nation’s future “Defenders of Justice”.
Did your child participate in this? How was their experience? Tell us in the comments section below.
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Zach T May 17, 2013 at 07:20 pm
The School board is a bunch of morons if they want to remove this designation! There were 0 problems…Read More like this when Malucci was in office, this new superintendent is a waste of space, money, and cares more about his own paycheck then our kids! Between school security, and now this, I motion that we get rid of that skell!
Dr. Kim Lurie May 16, 2013 at 12:54 pm
Bless you, Anthony. And though I know ultimately the "Judge" will have to be held…Read More accountable by a higher authority...those of us who do this work, have not forgotten nor will we allow the system to forget what her role in this travesity was.
Anthony Merlo May 16, 2013 at 10:24 am
Thank you for this wonderful article on a good man pushed to the brink. I appriciate the fact this…Read More came form the heart and did not hold back. As Sacristan at Cure of Ars, I had the pleasure of working with Dr. Rich (as I called him) for some time. He was a man of faith and a pleasure to see. Always with a smile and kind word, you would never know what was going on the way he acted. This was a wonderful and insightful article. It is heartbreaking to think that where there was once love between 2 people, things got to the point where one persons life was destroyed by those who could and did for no apparent reason other than having the ability to do so. God will have mercy on Dr. Rich and the ex-wife and "Judge" should pray for the same given their actions.
helen turner May 13, 2013 at 07:58 am
i did forget to mention my maiden name - McKinney - there might be an old timer or two who might…Read More remember the McKinney family - my father was an artist who many people knew