Today 12/2/15 we shared a lot of our thoughts with the students from Plymstock, England. It was our second video meeting with the “Face to Faith” program started by Tony Blair. We talked about things that are happening around the world. These are students that live in England. Since terrorist attacks were recently happening in Europe they do have a different point of view. We asked them if they feel secure with the government or if they could do something to avoid things that are happening around the world. They believe that the government is the only one whom can do something about the country’s security and stopping terrorism.
I don’t believe that is true. Why should we as a community have the right to speak out? The government needs to hear our voices but if we don’t raise our voice it will never be heard. If I was in England as a student I would be scared living so close to France. Isis is a big issue in Europe. Here in the United States as well ISIS has said that they will act in some cities and states and here and this is scary for us.
With things happening in Syria how is this is affecting our English friends?
Is this affecting people who immigrate to the UK?
I hope to hear from you in the comments.
PlymstockJoanna • Dec 30, 2015 at 6:40 am
Hello Estefani, it’s really interesting how different our schools are. In Plymouth teachers help us but sometimes we do independent learning. We have lots of activitiess through the school day, after or before and they are quite helpful. Most people don’t work after school they work at the weekend. Also our school is quite big so we don’t know each other like you and we aren’t so close to each other, we stick to the people in our age but we help each other.
tiffany16 • Dec 18, 2015 at 12:40 pm
Hey Joanna, I hope you are doing ok. My name is Estefani and I know that you want to know more about us. Here in Mountain View we don’t have a lot of activities like an others schools. In here we work by our own we do get help from our teachers but we do more work by our own. We are a pretty small school and that’s why we get to know each other a little bit more.
Almost everybody in here have to go to work after school is kind irritating, but everything is possible.
TammyZooni • Dec 16, 2015 at 11:19 am
The video conversation with the Plymstock School was really helpful for me. Through the video conference, we knew their point of view and they knew our opinion about what we are interested.
msr sergio • Dec 14, 2015 at 2:58 pm
We should help people who are victims of war in Syria because a lot of innocents are dying even children. The terrorists do not have heart because they kill everyone even women and children are being killed. The children are only knowing war and terror from a young age. This prepares them for a life of war and violence and terror. The abused become abusers. They are recruited by the army instead to go to school because they want to survive. When a problem starts in a place like in Syria, it spreads around the world. Governments of all countries help them please because the terrorism will come to your nation. I am from Guatemala and I am in USA because of violence like Syria.
PlymstockJoanna • Dec 11, 2015 at 2:33 pm
Thank you, it is nice to share ideas about what is happening today in this world and what everyone thinks about all this. It would be really nice if i did hear back from them.
the moon • Dec 10, 2015 at 2:40 pm
The Syrian refugees have arrived in UK as vulnerable persons. This can be fearful to the people who live in that country. The terrorist group ISIS is hard to see. Their target is always in the biggest countries and places that they can kill a lot of people. In November 2015 this group attacked France and killed innocent people. This is a big sad moment to the world. However, in my opinion, in order to attack the terrorist group, I do not think its necessary to kill the people in Syria. To get back in to my topic the government of UK and the USA have to listen and keep its people from being fearful. If the world works together, there is no way ISIS can win. This is not only one country’s responsibility. As they are against the world, the world should stand against them too.
Thank you!
PlymstockJoanna • Dec 10, 2015 at 7:09 am
I know that in the video conference we talked about lots of things but one thing we didn’t do is to talk about ourselves and get to know each other. I would like to know more about you so if you want reply back.
oceanmtnsky • Dec 10, 2015 at 1:12 pm
Joanna, we are all very impressed by your thoughtfulness and willingness to share your ideas. Hopefully you will hear from Mountain View classmates soon.
ItsBetterThisWay • Dec 9, 2015 at 2:10 pm
I Thought our conversation with the students in plymstock yielded great results but could have been a bit more productive. Seeing what it was like in England gave me a much clearer perspective on how society was dealing with such a global problem. I knew France had closed its borders and the united states was thinking about it but didn’t know England was considering the same. I think the core problem isn’t just radical immigrants coming into the country with the intention of hurting people; the core problem is gun control and when I say that I mean specifically for the mentally ill. France has strict gun laws but it didn’t stop a bunch of crazy people with ak47s (which is illegal in France). We also have to remember the problem of home grown terrorists who may support ISIS such as the San Bernardino shooting.
korils • Dec 8, 2015 at 9:46 am
I really enjoyed talking with the students from Plymstock. I do agree that they had a very different opinion and view on the recent terrorist attacks. I think that it was because they are a lot closer to where the attacks took place. it was really nice to be able to receive some insight from them about recent issues that have been going on around the world.
PlymstockJoanna • Dec 7, 2015 at 1:01 pm
Hello, I am Joanna from Plymstock. It was really nice to have the opportunity to talk with you again. Some of as have the same opinions but some of us don’t. I’ve learned a lot by talking to you and it’s nice to get to know other people. I agree with you saying that the Government is not the only one that can do something about what is happening today. We all have a voice and we need to say what we think because with us saying how we feeling and what we want to happen it will change things.
On your question saying how what’s happening in Syria is effecting us I have to say that because we are closer to France it had a quite big effect on us, feeling like we might be next and not knowing what’s going to happen. David Cameron wants to close our boarders and stop any refugees from coming in. I don’t really agree with that because there are many people out there that need our help and we need to help each other because if we don’t then how do we expect the world to get better?
On our last video conference Josh talked about how an ISIS member came through Greece well like I said then it’s not the best thing to hear on the news (if you are Greek) and it made me really angry as well but I have to say that it’s not really our fault we couldn’t help it.
The other thing you asked was if it’s effecting the immigrants. Well I’m a immigrant but it hasn’t really effected me in any way but you never know what it’s going to happen in the future and how all this is going to effect not only the immigrants but everyone in this world.