Workshop: School and community

Peace Team Cards

Set 1: School and Community

1. Grown-ups say that kids are causing all kinds of problems by hanging around downtown. Supposedly, kids steal and generally bother people. How would you attemt to solve this problem?
If you can`t come up with a suggestion, all kinds will be banned from downtown area.

2. Two groups of kids play football every racess, and every recess a fight breaks out over one thing or another. How would you attempt to make peace in this situation?
If you can`t come up with any suggestions, recess will be banned.

3. There are a group of people in your town called coopers. They are poor, uneducated, and subjected to prejudice and discrimination. They have been protesting their ill-treatment, and this has increased the number of problems they have with the larger community. How would you attempt to make peace in this situation?
if you can1t come up with any suggestion, there will be riots.

4. Kids in one house in your neighborhood have a rock band. Whenever they practice, they get complaints from the neighbors. As a result, they rarely get to practice. How would you attempt to solve this problem?
If you can`t come up with any suggestions, the band will have to break up.

5. Taxes are high in your community. Some people want to cut them in half, regardless of the consequences. Others say it is important to have good schools, plenty of police and firefighters, nice parks with swimming pools, and so on. How would you attempt to solve this problem?
If you can`t come up with a suggestion, there will be economic chaos.