Not all US schools "just skim" the event. When I was teaching high school social studies, I would rent EVERY year, at my own expense, "Hiroshima-Nagasaki: August, 1945," a film made by Japanese film-makers on the ground after the bombings in both cities. It is VERY graphic. I've always believed that my students knew more about the ACTUAL effects of nuclear weapons that 99% of US policy makers....
I am a retired high school social studies teacher. When I was in college my professor managed to get ahold of one of the few publicly available copies of the film, "Hiroshima-Nagasaki: August, 1945." Every year that I taught, I would rent that film, at my own expense, and show it to my students. I still believe that if you have not seen that film, you cannot have an informed opinion on the use of nuclear weapons. Using them is a war crime.
Not all US schools "just skim" the event. When I was teaching high school social studies, I would rent EVERY year, at my own expense, "Hiroshima-Nagasaki: August, 1945," a film made by Japanese film-makers on the ground after the bombings in both cities. It is VERY graphic. I've always believed that my students knew more about the ACTUAL effects of nuclear weapons that 99% of US policy makers....
I am a retired high school social studies teacher. When I was in college my professor managed to get ahold of one of the few publicly available copies of the film, "Hiroshima-Nagasaki: August, 1945." Every year that I taught, I would rent that film, at my own expense, and show it to my students. I still believe that if you have not seen that film, you cannot have an informed opinion on the use of nuclear weapons. Using them is a war crime.
Thank you for this wonderful poem