Paper Clips (2005)In 1998, a group of students in Whitwell Middle School in Whitwell Tennessee, started a project to study the holocoust to learn about prejudice, diversity and tolerance. Whitwell is a very small rural town, where most of the students are white and Christian and when one of the students says they have no idea of what six million looks like the students set out to collect six million paper clips.
This documentry follows the impact this project has on the students, teachers and community and how what happened 60 years ago still has an important message about tolerance and understanding.
It certainly frightened me to speak with a 19 year old student at work, who had no idea about the Holocoust or what happened to the jews during the second world war. I wonder what are students learning about in 13 years of school if they learn so little about history. 3/5 for this slow and gentle dvd.
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