Year 9 Rights and Wrongs

This course is a full year long. 

The Big Question:  Why should we care?

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." – Martin Luther King Jr.      

Rights and Wrongs is a course about our rights, how we can know if we are doing the right thing, and what we can do to make things right. We will look at human rights, what it looks like when these rights get broken and what we can do to try and make sure we keep these rights. We will look at how people have been treated wrong by looking at parts of human history like slavery, the death penalty, and some of the significant darker days of Aotearoa's history too. We will investigate social issues, problems of social justice and what actions people are taking to try and fight to fix the world's problems. So if you want to debate about controversial issues, learn about the darker parts of our world and heritage, and think about how we can solve the challenges of the future then this is the course for you.