Sep 13, 2018
6 min read
What I Do When My Students Praise Hitler
Teachers aren’t supposed to be political, but we have to be.
One of my students started praising Hitler during a class discussion. It was the first time he’d talked all semester, a few days after the 2016 election. “He was a great leader, just with really different ideas.” Yeah, I guess genocide counts as a really different idea.
