{"id":4078,"date":"2021-02-16T20:20:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2021-02-16T20:40:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T20:40:27","slug":"news-briefing-educates-the-pingry-community-on-events-at-the-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2021\/02\/16\/news-briefing-educates-the-pingry-community-on-events-at-the-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"News Briefing Educates the Pingry Community on Events at the Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Kate Marine (III)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the morning of January 7th, Upper School students were given the opportunity to attend various processing sessions via Zoom in response to the unprecedented events that occurred at the US Capitol Building the previous day. Among these sessions was a news brief, also via Zoom, from Mr. Matt Honohan. It aimed to give students and faculty some guidance in understanding what exactly transpired at the Capitol, and how our country came to such a point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tMr. Honohan is a faculty member of the Upper School History Department, where he currently teaches World History 10, as well as three sections of AP Government and Politics. \u201cI have a real passion for our country, and for our political system,\u201d Mr. Honohan said, regarding his position as a government teacher, \u201cso what I really enjoyed about [the news brief] was [bringing] a slice of what I do in AP Gov to the student body as a whole.\u201d The session\u2019s goal was to give both students and faculty a better sense of the country\u2019s current situation, with the hope that understanding this event would be the first step towards processing it. With all the chaos that has accompanied the 2020 US election, Mr. Honohan especially wanted the talk to address a central question: how did we get here? \u201cWe wanted students to have a better chance of understanding why<\/em> we had such chaos in the Capital, and [of understanding] some of the legal and constitutional reasons why things got so messy by January 6th,\u201d Mr. Honohan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tIn terms of its impact on the Upper School community, the news briefing on January 7th was successful and received positive feedback from both students and faculty. \u201cBefore, I had a cursory understanding [of the January 6th events],\u201d Leon Zhou (III) said, \u201cbut after attending the briefing I had a much more detailed understanding of the events that happened, and ones leading up to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tAlthough we hope that the events of January 6th will never have to repeat themselves, Mr. Honohan stresses the importance of staying politically engaged in the world around us. \u201cOne of the things I particularly love about teaching government is [that] it is, in a fundamental way, citizenship training,\u201d Mr. Honohan said. \u201cEverybody in the school is going to be eighteen soon and voting.\u201d For that reason, although he does not expect students to \u201cbe massively politically engaged,\u201d Mr. Honohan hopes that events like the storming of the Capitol can demonstrate to students the very real and immediate consequences of politics affecting the country as a whole. \u201cIt’s easy to live life from crisis to crisis, but the challenge is to develop a degree of consistent engagement,\u201d Mr. Honohan explained. \u201cI hope [these events] spur students to be more consistently engaged in the world around them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In such unstable times, events like the ones of January 6th can easily seem scary and overwhelming to the average newswatcher. It is for this reason that staying educated is so important to processing the events both individually and as a community. \u201cThe events of January 6th and [similar] events will only drive us apart using fear and political divide,\u201d Zhou said. Unless, of course, we bridge that divide with political awareness and common understanding \u2014 perhaps that bridge is the one thing we can keep stable amidst a turbulent year for our country.
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