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  • Gateway Mst Elementary School
  • Saint Louis, MO
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Respect for diversity and tolerance for differences underlies everything we try to teach in order to create a peaceful climate in our school. As the School Counselor in a multicultural urban middle school, grades 6-8, I have focused on teaching tolerance and preventing bullying. Last year, we took our 7th & 8th graders to our local Holocaust Museum, and this year we are taking a new group of 7th graders. Having a classroom set of the book Maus would reinforce these lessons in a way that middle school students would really relate to. Spiegelman tells the story of his father, a Holocaust survivor, in comic book style, using mice in the role of the Jews and cats in the role of the Nazis. My own children read this book in middle school and it had a lasting effect on them. I would like for the students at my school to be affected by its message as well.

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Respect for diversity and tolerance for differences underlies everything we try to teach in order to create a peaceful climate in our school. As the School Counselor in a multicultural urban middle school, grades 6-8, I have focused on teaching tolerance and preventing bullying. Last year, we took our 7th & 8th graders to our local Holocaust Museum, and this year we are taking a new group of 7th graders. Having a classroom set of the book Maus would reinforce these lessons in a way that middle school students would really relate to. Spiegelman tells the story of his father, a Holocaust survivor, in comic book style, using mice in the role of the Jews and cats in the role of the Nazis. My own children read this book in middle school and it had a lasting effect on them. I would like for the students at my school to be affected by its message as well.

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