Sudbury students get a unique human rights education (Sudbury.com)

Students at MacLeod Public School climbed on to a bus on Tuesday, but not one that would take them to or from school.

Instead, the bus took them on an educational journey intended to teach them to make real world connections to historical events related to human rights.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies' Tour for Humanity made a stop in Sudbury this week and will be visiting five different schools and edcating students between grades three to high school.

MacLeod Public School students were given a 50 minute presentation inside of the bus, which on the interior more closely resembles a small movie theatre. The bus is outfitted with theatre seating and large projection screens, where education associate Elena Kingsbury takes the students through some historic Canadian events, tying them to situations they may encounter today.

"Today's presentation is called 'The Canadian Experience', so the kids will learn about things like residential schools, Japanese internment camps during the second World War, and slavery in Canada," said Kingsbury.

"Current issues we look at are cyber bullying, and examples of modern-day intolerance."

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