by George J Elbaum
Summit Charter High School is a public charter school in grades K-12 with enrollment of 2,309 students and high diversity: Hispanic 77%, White 16%, two or more races 3%, Asian or Pacific Islander 2%, Native American 1%, and all other 1%. Of the total, 18% of the students are learning English and 62% are from low-income families.
Despite these difficult demographics, the school’s GreatSchools Summary Ratings are approximately California state average in several categories, including graduation rate, Test Scores, Academic Progress, College Readiness and Equity.
My presentation to 50 10th grade students was organized by teacher Alberto Gasca, whose World History students were in the middle of the Holocaust unit and will have covered the history of antisemitism in Europe, and the different stages of the Holocaust (antisemitism, Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, the ghettos, camps, and liberation) by the time of my presentation. The students are also reading Night by Elie Wiesel in their English class.
Arrangements for my talk were made by Lexi Jason, Education Program Manager at Seattle’s Holocaust Center for Humanity
Neither Yesterdays Nor Tomorrows 