Introduction

                Hello fellow bloggers! My name is Sarah Fontaine and I am currently a senior (FINALLY) at Westborough High School. The first semester I chose to take a really great course called Facing History and Ourselves, which was taught by Mr. Gregory Gallagher. There is not really one certain way to describe this class and what it is all about. I think that when everyone in the class signed up for it they all had their own ideas about what we would be learning these first 4 months of school. I am going to be honest, at first I thought that it was just about the Holocaust and the events that lead up to it; that was originally the reason I chose to take this course (along with the fact that I had heard great things about it). With only a few days left in this class I realized that it is about so much more than that. This class is to show kids my age what happens when you are a bystander. Sure, some people might say that the Holocaust is an extreme example of that, but it really isn’t. Mr. Gallagher made us realize what the world could eventually to come to if everyone doesn’t stop watching horrible things go on that they do not agree with. Everyone says that the world needs to change, that people and society to change. Well if we want these things we need to start doing something about it! Everyone has a responsibility to do what they think is right.