Five hundred middle and high school students at the Ambassador School of Global Leadership learned about the Armenian Genocide last week, Asbarez newspaper writes.

A program and discussion was presented by The Genocide Education Project, in partnership with the AGBU Young Professionals of Los Angeles.

Suzanne Douzmanian, GenEd’s Southern California Regional Coordinator led the discussion, which examined the political and historical context of the Armenian Genocide, as part of the continuum of genocides of the 20th century.

She also incorporated an examination of the historical journey of her own grandparents, survivors of the Armenian Genocide, into the presentation, the newspaper writes.

For many of the students, this was the first they had heard of the Armenian Genocide. Although state law requires that the Armenian Genocide be taught in California schools, many schools still do not include this history in their curriculum, the article says.