+167 Cramming students into a gymnasium (without any advanced warning) and giving a small percentage pizza and the rest rice (showing percentages of people with access to good food versus people who don't, on a global scale) and forcing them to watch videos of young children crying over their parents' deaths is the WRONG way to convey the message of world hunger to a student population. Amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My church did this...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My school did this today. They were giving out water, but when it was my turn to get some, they had just ran out. Their response? "Too bad - that's what it's like to be a child in Africa." Not to mention I hadn't eaten anything all day because I get sick when I eat in the morning...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

not to mention thats not at all their problem. its still wrong, but what you just said was unspeakably stupid.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If you pay five dollars at my school, you can take part in this. It's for the march of dimes, and the "rich" people literally get pizza, ice cream, rice, french fries, and a muffin,as well as 3 to 4 HUGE bottles of water. The "poor" people only get a little mouthful of bread and a couple drops of water.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Idk. It sounds kind of fun to me. And sometimes you need something shocking like that. When my English teacher was about to read Night with us a few years back, she pretended to be all Hitler-y and such, only treating the blue eyed blond haired kids good. The rest of us had to do degrading little tasks and take her shit all period. But we got the point better.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Depends how old these kids are. I think high school kids and //maybe// middle school kids could handle it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think if you have fair warning it's ok.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Honestly, I think it's a good way to hit it a bit closer to home. If you're walking away feeling sorry for yourself because you choose not to eat breakfast every morning and usually enjoy lunch and (presumably) dinner, then you're probably missing the point, which is to think outside of yourself and realize others out there are in conditions and circumstances that demand our attention and empathy and weigh considerably more than our (usually) privileged concerns.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

When my camp did it, we found it not hard at all and borderline fun. It's supposed to be hard or it will miss the point completely, as I know from experience.

by Anonymous 12 years ago