Laws, Rights and Responsibilities.

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Laws, Rights and Responsibilities.

Core values pledge

I promise to uphold the core values of

BELL MULTICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL

I WILL BE HONEST - tell the complete truth, do my own work, leave other people s property alone, and refuse to listen to or participate in gossip or the spreading of rumors.

I WILL BE RESPONSIBLE - make good choices, correct my mistakes, accept the punishments and rewards of my actions, be dependable by keeping promises and commitments, complete assignments and chores, and ask for help when I need it.

I WILL SHOW RESPECT - treat everyone the way I want to be treated, respect myself, accept individual differences and beliefs, be polite, always use appropriate language, treat the property of others with care, and respect my school building, home, and community.

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Student Signature Date

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Parent Signature Date

1. Civic Education

The idea of civic education is as old as civic society. In order to be active and productive members of the country where we live, we need to know what the world is like and what we should strive for. Living in society can be rewarding, interesting and enjoyable.

The main purpose of civic education is to nature social and political self-consciousness to achieve a better society. And the function of civic education is to encourage people to strive to ward a more harmonious interaction, at both the national and even international level.

The term democracy has become one of the most popular and common in Political vocabulary today. The “demos” means the people, crowd, the citizens with rights, and "cretos” means the power strength, might, government and even victory (ancient Greeks).

Democracy is a system in which the people elect representatives. The representatives of the people form government and the opposition. Democracy is a better system of government than others, where people enjoy political freedom.

Democracy, in any country, can succeed on some conditions. First of all people in general should be properly educated. Secondly, the people in general should be prosperous. Then their votes cannot be purchased. Thirdly, the people should enjoy the basic freedoms, fox example, freedom of speech, and freedom of publication, freedom to join a political party. Fourthly, there should be equality before the law. All people, high and low, rich and poor, should be punished equally, if they break the law.

Democracy can be troublesome, if its people and leaders are not educated and enlightened with full knowledge.

Democracy

Honest, truthful,

Wanting, nurturing, believing

Democracy plays the main role in human's society

Rights.

It depends on ourselves, nobody will come and change our life, everything depends on us. “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance" Socrates.

It’s wonderful to know some one who makes the earth a better place to live.

“Freedom’’

By Dee Lilegard

For all people

For all races

For all our different

Shapes and faces

For rich or poor,

For high or low,

Let’s have freedom.

Wherever we go!

Freedom at Last!

Let freedom ring!

These were the words.

Of Martin Luther King.