Immigration issues come to life for PBHS students
PICTURE BUTTE – Immigration and refugees have dominated the news cycle for some time now. Those issues, however, hit a little closer to home for a group of Picture Butte High School students.
With those topics tied into the social studies curriculum, some 70 students in Grades 7 through 9 gained greater insight into immigration and refugees thanks to three presenters who have experienced them first hand.
Joining Michael Ward, of Lethbridge Family Services – Immigrant Services, were Hiba and Jalila, teenaged refugees who fled the Syrian civil war and immigrated to Canada with their families just a few years ago.
“I was just hoping to learn more about the (immigration) process and how it impacts people,” said Grade 9 PBHS student Cassandra Mack of what she had hoped to take away from the presentation.