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Vernon students host annual Tolerance Fair

| 19 Jun 2017 | 04:25
    Students at Vernon Township High School presented topics on a wide variety of world issues at the eighth annual Tolerance Fair. Pictured with the students are their teachers (kneeling, at right) John Loggie, and (standing, at right) Thom LoGiudice (l) and school librarian, Steven Denn.
    Students at Vernon Township High School presented topics on a wide variety of world issues at the eighth annual Tolerance Fair. Pictured with the students are their teachers (kneeling, at right) John Loggie, and (standing, at right) Thom LoGiudice (l) and school librarian, Steven Denn.

VERNON — Vernon Township High School’s students in Literature of the Holocaust and Issues of Conscience classes shared what they have learned in the eighth annual Tolerance Fair.
Student groups presented on the present, past, local and global humanitarian crises they have been following and researching all year, topics such as the crisis in Syria, the conflict with North Korea, the water shortage in Africa, prisoner treatment at Guantanamo Bay, modern hate groups, and the plague of school shootings. They also presented historical perspective on the Khmer Rouge, Unit 731, the genocide in Darfur, the tyranny of Joseph Stalin, and the Trail of Tears.
Forty students from Mr. Thom LoGiudice and Mr.John Loggie’s classes presented over five class periods to well over two hundred students. The goals of the day were to bring school-wide awareness to global issues, most focused on the devastating effects of intolerance.