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It's A Girl | Film Screening Mouat Secondary High School
- Category: Our blog
- Created: Friday, 03 May 2013 00:00
- Written by Deesh Sekhon
Many thanks to student Jasmeen Sandhu and teacher Jinny St-Hilaire for organizing and facilitating a screening of the film "It's A Girl," this Friday evening.
The screening was part of the students' social justice projects, where they had to pick a global issue, present the problem and solutions alongside. After the presentation and screening we had an engaging discussion with student participation.
The film left many feeling shocked and saddened by the stories they heard. Seeing the stories from China were the most surprising as many of the myths of the "pregnancy police," actually could be seen in reality. I asked the students to describe how they felt after seeing the film in just one word, this is what they said: saddeded, hurt, inspired, surprised, devestated, angry...
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