Our Rose Ceremony

Never Again!
Violence against Women

Today we want to talk to you about the ceremony that happens at our school every year on December the 6th. It reminds us that violence against women has happened in terrible ways, in the past, and we must be aware so it won’t happen any more. This is called the Rose Ceremony and it helps us to remember the 15 women engineering students who were killed at L’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. Each of the girls in the Leaders of Tomorrow represented one of the women, and honored her with a rose.

The 15 women were killed because they were studying and learning how to be engineers. The man who killed them was against women’s rights. The man’s name was Marc Lepine. This happened in December the 6th 1989. He was really evil to come into the school and murder all 15 women because he felt that women didn’t have the right to become engineers.

Women have rights and women can do anything that men can do. Especially they have the right to be free from the violence and oppression of men who want to limit them or hurt them.


Posted by Varda & Nadia, grade 6 and 5