MSO Model United Nations

Great quote from the President of Chile - Gender equality must become a lived reality Michelle Bachelet

The students are working on Tshirt designs for Montessori Model United Nations.

We are reading I Lived on Butterfly Hill - about a young girl growing up when Pinochet comes to power. An eleven-year-old’s world is upended by political turmoil in this lyrically ambitious tale of exile and reunification (Kirkus Reviews) from an award-winning poet, based on true events in Chile. Celeste Marconi is a dreamer. She lives peacefully among friends and neighbors and family in the idyllic town of Valparaiso, Chileuntil one day when warships are spotted in the ha...rbor and schoolmates start disappearing from class without a word. Celeste doesn’t quite know what is happening, but one thing is clear: no one is safe, not anymore. The country has been taken over by a government that declares artists, protestors, and anyone who helps the needy to be considered subversive and dangerous to Chile’s future. So Celeste’s parentsher educated, generous, kind parentsmust go into hiding before they, too, disappear. Before they do, however, they send Celeste to America to protect her.

In Seattle, a judge has ruled that eight children who have sued the state of Washington for failing to protect them from climate change can have their day in court.

We welcome the incoming United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, who took his oath of office and addressed the General Assembly today.

Miguel and Annika came to talk to us about Chile