Dear List,

I appreciate that Dr Kirby joined the list for the reasons he describes
below - that is to say, informational ones.

There are other reasons to join lists like this, and one of them - I should
have thought - is to involve oneself in discussion. In this case, discussion
not so much on 'the war on Iraq' as on school-students' responses to that
war, and their significance.

Ken Jones


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kirby" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 4:02 PM
Subject: Iraq


> Dear List Owner
>
> Re. The war on Iraq.
>
> The list membership will undoubtedly comprise a variety of views about the
> on-going conflict but I don't think the list is really an appropriate
place
> to air them.  I joined the list for information about the history of
> children and families (historical sources and debates, bibliography,
> conferences etc.).  I'd therefore like to request that postings be
confined
> to those relevant aspects of the subject.
> Thanks
> Best wishes
> P. Kirby
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 11:15 AM
> Subject: I'm running out of sheets!
>
>
>
> Dear List,
>
> The opposition to war against Iraq includes a remarkable upsurge of
> interest in politics and international issues among children and young
> people.
> In my own district, here in the Hope Valley, a rural area near Sheffield,
> young people in the local comprehensive secondary school have organised
> themselves, planned and chaired their own meetings, negotiated actions
with
> staff and are planning to join school children en masse in the City the
day
> after war breaks out. They are using the net effectively to communicate
> their actions and resistance, contacting press and planning passive
> resistance.
>
> This needs to be recognised as perhaps an important turning point in
> children's history. I reckon the knowledge and skills they are gaining at
> this time will become deeply ingrained and might possible lead to a move
> towards greater interest in organising ways of determining their own
> present and futures.
>
> All this is happening in spite of a Citizenship curriculum which is being
> imposed on secondary school age children, not as a result of it.
>
> I just think that we need to document this important moment in the history
> of school children in the UK and across the world.
> Do list members recognise this happening in their own localities?
>
>
> see http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/emailthisstory/emailthisstory.pl
>
> Cathy
> p.s. the reference to sheets is related to the high demand for suitable
> material for banners.
>