I tell this story a lot but in high school I got in trouble for having a copy of the NYT on Starr Report day because it was a "distraction."https://twitter.com/ylichterman/status/1177285049999384578?s=21 …
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(This is the same school that shut down class so we could watch the OJ verdict in the auditorium so no points for consistency I guess.)
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Spare a thought for the 16-year-olds making sense of this formative news cycle
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it's still wild to me that we don't teach or at least provide a way to process current events in schools
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I think about this a lot! My high school taught nothing post-WWII. Teachers thought talking about Vietnam would be "divisive". In the late 90s!
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