Kodi presents vandalism to Jewish graves news story.

Kodi spoke about the vandilism of 20 jewish graves. The nazi party logo had been sprayed on the graves and nearby properties."Kinda stupid" was Kodi's opinion. This led to a huge discussion with many contributions and important questions. We discussed how Hitler wanted to have one race and take control of the world. He blamed the Jews for everything that was wrong with Germany. Not all Germans hate Jews, they actually helped them in the war. We don't want that kind of crime in New Zealand-it's based on hate and it's wrong. Kodi said they had gone to court but they weren't releasing their names. He thought they might be pakeha or english people. It took us a while to figure out why Kodi said this but eventually we made the connection with help from me! It's because the people who do these hate crimes are usually involved in skin head or white power groups. We discussed why Hitler had so much power in Germany and why it gave the German people a way of belonging and a way of thinking it would make their life better. Kodi did a good job but he found it was hard to keep talking because we kept having our own discussions. We thought the people who had this happen to their house or to the graves would feel quite scared and upset. We need to learn how to listen properly to each other. The discussion and the questions were great.