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Expression of Concern Barry Falls F Or the Washing T on Pos VOLUME 19 ISSUE 1 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program Expression of Concern T ON POS T OR THE WASHING F BARRY FALLS ■ Post Reprint: “Our indifference toward kids is unconscionable” ■ Post Reprint: “Words Fail: How do we talk about what’s happening to our planet?” ■ Student Activity: Find the Right Keener Word ■ Post Reprint: “A graphic photo gives the press pause” ■ Post Reprint: “‘This will be catastrophic’: Maine families face elder boom, worker shortage in preview of nation’s future” ■ Student Activity: A Shortage of Young Workers ■ Post Appreciation Reprint: “The Tenacity of Hope” September 10, 2019 ©2019 THE WASHINGTON POST VOLUME 19 ISSUE 1 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program IN TRO DUC TION. When you think of three months in your life, you may be quite surprised by the number of new and unexpected activities that get mixed in with the mundane and routine. Imagine having events and issues in your community, your state, country and the world to record in your diary. Reprints and activities in this guide cover June-August 2019. Petula Dvorak looks at recent events, discerns a theme and shares with her readers. Together the examples serve as a reminder of what took place in one week and ask adults to consider their responsibilities. What would your students have to say about them? In addition to looking at the words we use (“Words Fail”) and the photographs we print (“A graphic photo The gives the press pause”), we take time to appreciate a great American author. Toni Morrison passed away in Choices early August at the age of 88. Ron Charles captures her works and influence in “The Tenacity of Hope.” We Make Business and economics news reported in “ ‘This will be catastrophic’: Maine families face elder boom, worker shortage in preview of nation’s future” may give students Influence an interesting perspective on career choices, family re- Others sponsibilities, immigration and demographic impact. Reporters cover areas of concern to inform; readers respond and make choices 2 September 10, 2019 ©2019 THE WASHINGTON POST VOLUME 19 ISSUE 1 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program Our indifference toward kids is unconscionable doctor Larry Nassar was a sexual nationwide operation. By Petula abuser. Jury selection was underway in Dvorak In Pennsylvania, lawyers Los Angeles in the trial of a Disney Columnist announced a new lawsuit against the music executive accused of sexually Boy Scouts of America that claims abusing two young girls. Originally to have uncovered at least 300 more A Florida school district voted Published cases of sexual abuse, cases where to require their students to undergo August 8, 2019 adults covered up for other adults, active shooter drills every month. shushing and tiptoeing around while Three words: kids in cages. children were victimized in heinous At least 900 of them have been America is failing its children. and depraved ways on campouts and separated from their parents in Future generations will look back retreats. the year since a judge ordered an at how we treat our kids and be In D.C., a girl testified that end to the separations, according appalled at the way we kept them in she was sexually abused by a local to an ACLU lawsuit. The last cages, refused to protect them from Catholic priest, calling it “gross” time we detained huge swaths of sexual predators and drilled them and “disgusting” and said “it hurt.” an American population — the on how to behave when a gunman More than 80 kids who had deplorable Japanese internment hunts them down. been trafficked for sex were finally camps of World War II — the The collective news from just this recovered by the FBI in a sweeping, government kept children with their week is a searing indictment of adult indifference. In Mississippi, hundreds of children were left wandering, hungry and in tears after ICE arrested their parents in a sweeping raid that took 680 people suspected of illegal immigration into custody but made zero plans for their children. At a news conference in Kansas City, Mo., the woman believed by many to be the greatest U.S. gymnast in history, Simone Biles, teared up as she remembered the sexual abuse she suffered while the organization that was supposed to keep her safe — USA Gymnastics BRYAN WOOLSTON/REUTERS — refused to believe her and the Children gather for a memorial service honoring the victims of Dayton’s mass shooting, in other girls who told them their team Springfield, Ohio. 3 September 10, 2019 ©2019 THE WASHINGTON POST VOLUME 19 ISSUE 1 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program parents. had one job; you literally had one This is about the government And one name: Jeffrey job, and you couldn’t protect us!” and church officials who’d rather Epstein. Not only is he accused of Maybe you want to point to the cover their butts than protect trafficking girls to his “Pedophile 300 million children worldwide a child from abuse. It’s the Island” to cavort with the rich and who live on less than $1.90 a day, dogmatic supporters of partisan famous, America keeps calling his most of them in sub-Saharan slogans who put cruelty over victims “young women” — rather Africa, according to the Brookings humanity. than “children.” Institution, and argue that our kids It’s the people who’d rather put And all this doesn’t include the here have it pretty good. the onus of children’s safety from daily grind of shootings (2,240 You may look around and see gun violence on them, rather than children 17 and under killed or kids with iPhone Xs and Gucci taking actions to create a safer injured by gunfire in America backpacks. Maybe your fancy-pants world. this year, according to the Gun dinner was ruined by screaming It comes back to a proverb with Violence Archive), gross child kids in $800 strollers, and it may a debated provenance, but a sound abuse and neglect cases, the tabloid seem like American kids are principle: “A society grows great parade of weird custody battles and indulged and spoiled. when old men plant trees whose adult abdication of responsibility. But the United States has some shade they know they shall never I’m talking about the way of the highest child-poverty rates sit in.” American systems — schools, among developed countries. About We’ve stopped planting those religions, sports organizations, 15 million of our kids live below trees, and we will pay a terrible corporate America, government — the poverty rate, and about 40 price for it. routinely fail to protect our most percent of them will experience at valuable asset. least a year in poverty before they “It’s like, ‘Did you guys really not turn 18. Petula is a columnist for The Post's local like us that much that you couldn’t But that’s not what I’m talking team who writes about homeless shelters, gun control, high heels, high school choirs, just do your job?’ ” asked Biles, one about, either. A childhood of poverty the politics of parenting, jails, abortion of the world’s tough, determined, doesn’t mean a childhood of misery. clinics, mayors, modern families, strip strong and poised athletes. Plenty of well-adjusted, happy clubs and gas prices, among other things. “We had one job [winning adults grew up in loving homes that Before coming to The Post, she covered Olympic gold],” Biles said. “You struggled to make ends meet. social issues, crime and courts. 4 September 10, 2019 ©2019 THE WASHINGTON POST VOLUME 19 ISSUE 1 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program BARRY FALLS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Words Fail How do we talk about what’s happening to our planet? and saw, less than a mile away, “catastrophic connotations,” and rely BY DAN ZAK flames chewing the dark sky over Los on another term: “climate change,” Angeles. Luntz — who specializes in which suggested “a more controllable how the public reacts to words — and less emotional challenge.” • Originally Published on August 27, 2019 saw scary evidence of a threat that he Last month, with a revised script, once tried to neutralize with language. Luntz appeared before the Senate n the middle of a winter’s night In 2001, he’d written a memo of Democrats’ Special Committee on in 2017, Frank Luntz’s cellphone environmental talking points for the Climate Crisis. alerted him to a nearby wildfire. Republican politicians and instructed “I’m here before you to say that IThe longtime analyst of public them to scrub their vocabulary of I was wrong in 2001,” Luntz said. opinion opened his bedroom curtains “global warming,” because it had Nearby was a colorful chart of 5 September 10, 2019 ©2019 THE WASHINGTON POST VOLUME 19 ISSUE 1 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program vocabulary, developed since his Rebellion, partly to normalize the chapter, “it is very likely that some polling in 2009 showed bipartisan notion of aggressive action in a life- support for climate legislation. He or-death situation. physical and ecological impacts will went on: “I’ve changed. And I will Luntz wants defter language. be irreversible for thousands of years, help you with messaging, if you wish “The strongest advocates for a while others will be permanent.” to have it.” particular issue are often the worst When translated to conversational Don’t talk about threats, he told the communicators,” he says later by English, “very likely” becomes “this senators.
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