The students from St. Francis of Assisi managed to get their resolution through the House but it's been stalled in the Senate Education Committee. So the students showed up at the Capitol again today with a large banner which read "Please Senators...Pass HJR 6...Study of Holocaust" and displayed it in front of the Capitol Annex. They also buttonholed senators they could find in the annex building.

But their teacher, Fred Whittaker, says the students ran into a brick wall when trying to lobby Senators David Williams and Ken Winters on the value of their bill. According to Whittaker, Williams wouldn't discuss it with them, referring the students to Winters, who is chairman of the Education Committee. Winters referred them to Williams, saying he's the one who makes decisions about which legislation passes, and which legislation doesn't, according to the teacher.

As the students watched in the Education Committee today, Winters told them he would take up their resolution next week after a committee substitute is drafted. Winters told me the committee substitute will likely include other major events in world history that should be recommended study for Kentucky students. Whittaker says he's very concerned that the new resolution will water down the impact of the Holocaust and the course that his students have completed. There's also been a suggestion from one lawmaker that anti-Semitism is creeping into the picture, but St. Francis of Assisi students told me they wouldn't make that accusation. They believe the senators just don't understand the value of studying the Holocaust and the impact it's had on students' compassion and willingness to stand up against repression.