It is Tuesday morning and outside Parliament Hill in Ottawa are students reading letters and singing songs to raise awareness about the atrocious Aboriginal school system.
These students, contrary to what you may have thought, are in grades 3, 4 and 5, and attend an elementary school in the area.
The students were on a field trip Monday to the Supreme Court of Canada to listen to an Aboriginal human rights case, a topic that is similar to conditions on reserves, a subject that some of them have been learning in class for a few weeks, CBC News reported.
“This rises above politics,” organizer Sylvia Smith, a teacher at Elizabeth Wyn Wood Alternative School in Nepean, told CBC News. “This is an issue of fairness. This is an issue of what's just and what's right.”
Grade 4 student Ya-elle Atinokov believes that her school illustrates a proper school because there are enough teachers for everyone.
“We're going to sing songs and read out our letters that we wrote, and tell the government we want proper education,” Atinokov said.
The student’s parents are also very supportive of the program, Lady Evelyn teacher Annie Atnikov told CBC News.
“I don't know that it's a political statement," Atnikov said. "What we're teaching them is that we are a democracy, we are the government. This is about racism. This is about everybody having the same rights.”
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