The school where I teach is a small, rural public high school - graduating class of 50-some. It is the only high school in the county, which is in the bottom 5 in per capita income of the 100 counties in North Carolina. Racially, the breakdown is about 10% Hispanic with the rest about evenly split between white and black. The building itself is brand new having opened in 2019. The old building was completely destroyed by flooding during Hurricane Florence and so thanks to grant money and FEMA recovery funds, we have a new state f the art building, completely powered by solar energy. We are a Title I school which means that all students receive free breakfast and lunch.flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 5:21 pmCome to think of it, krox, you teach civics. Is it a public school? Would you be willing to share your syllabus or lesson plans for the semester? I would be interested in seeing what is being taught in civics classes these days.krox-Also out in the real world, last semester while teaching my civics class in rural North Carolina, the subject of policing came up. I asked my classes how many of them had had "The Talk" - how to behave if stopped by the police. EVERY SINGLE ONE of the Black students (high school sophomores and juniors) had, along with some of the Hispanics. Only one of the white students had (that student's father is a sheriff's deputy). I would love to live in a world where racism both individually and systemically, doesn't exist, but we are not there, and until we do, not to shine a light on it is to tacitly condone it.
This is the link to the NC Standard Course of Study, which I am required by law to follow:
https://www.dpi.nc.gov/founding-princip ... -2021/open
As an example of what I teach, today we were discussing the Constitutional Convention and the various compromises necessary to get it passed including the Great Compromise and the 3/5 Compromise.
And believe me. If I had time or inclination to indoctrinate my students to anything, I would indoctrinate them to be respectful, get their work done, and bring me hot chocolate in the morning.