Model UN expands students' understanding of geopolitical realities

There’s memorizing a Contemporary World textbook and writing an exam and then there is experiencing the contemporary world by engaging in debates on big issues outside the classroom.
This week, Pierrefonds Comprehensive High School and Lindsay Place High School held a two-day Model UN with 250 Grade 11 students representing 55 nations.
The event was chaired by retired Lindsay Place teacher Norman Horner. It was Horner’s 13th Model UN. It was his job to explain the finer rules of pres