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Treaty Education

I believe there is always a place for Treaty Education to be placed into classrooms. Whether there is one First Nations student or a hundred of them, Treaty Education should be taught. In the email, reading about how students took the subject manner as a joke saddens me. These children are left in the dark and are not being taught the importance if Treaty Education. It does not matter if there are any First Nations students in the school or in your classroom, teaching about treaties is important for the students in our classroom for them to have a better understanding of what treaties really are. The students need to know the history of treaties and where what we call home actually came from. This also goes for the teachers as well. Most teachers will complain or teach the subject one time and be done with it. However, that is not proper distribution of the subject. Teachers should be more educated with the topic in order to teach in the best possible way. Field trips, guest speakers, books, or any other resources will all provide educated information for the students learning, as well as the teachers. Not everyone will understand the meaning behind why we should teach about Treaty Education but that is why we teach it. To let the parents, students know what our history was really like, how we received this land. There are so many educators that are left in the dark about the importance of Treaty Education. We need to bring awareness to our students, colleagues, and parents about how important it is for our students future. Spending more time on this subject manner in different subjects, not only one, will create awareness on the topic and educate the students in what is important. Treaty Education should be taught just as much as any other subject, there should be no excuses. We must remind our students and educate them on why we are all treaty people.

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