Talking with students and children about what happened at Capitol Hill

Talking with students and children about what happened at Capitol Hill

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As events unfolded on capitol hill.... parents and educators "here" raised concerns.

They wanted to know how to make sense of it all to their children.

Teachers on social media shared different strategies and ways "they" would go about it.

News 10's dominic miranda is live in our newsroom..

He has more on how one educator here in vigo county spoke to his students today... jim kendall is an a-p government teacher at west vigo high school here locally.

He told me... he was glued to the television from about 4 yesterday until 10 in the evening... trying to prepare what he could take from what unfolded...and use to help his students fully comprehend it.

[take pkg incue: kental told me outcue: **bite** as an educator duration:1:24] pk} kendall told me... he sent an email to his students on wednesday saying..

If you can... turn on the television because something truly unprecedented in american history is happening right now.

"i just wanted my students to be able to watch the drama unfold as much as they could so when we convened in class this morning we could be able to say okay what did you watch, what did you see, what speeches did you see, what news coverages did you see.

So we could begin the conversation so then i could serve as somebody who could be a point of reference or provide clarity to students for things that they may not have understood with what they were seeing on the tv."

Kendall says his focus with students is always this... if the constitution could talk... what would it say?

He says he made sure students understood what congress's goal was on wednesday... the repercussions because the legislative action of the day was delayed.... and then also the several laws that were broken when the capitol was broken into.

He says those are the ideas he plans to explore with students in the coming weeks.

"i wish the events of yesterday had not happened, but any opportunity to answer student questions about government, elections, the constitution, congress, presidency...those are welcomed opportunities as an educator."

Kendall told me students were certainly students were told me kendall kendall told me students were certainly shocked about what happened yesterday... but he used it as an opportunity for them to lead the discussions... and help them in any way he could to make sense of it.

Reporting live in the newsroom.

I'm dominic miranda news 10