I think it makes kids aware and really brings it home to them that this kind of thing happens. A white student who did not get a chance to ask her question during the session, escorted me to my car. Everybody wanted to talk about race. It was cool. Warrick's efforts are worth emulating in every public school in the nation because school is the ideal place to start excising the cancer of racism.
North Central is a microcosm of society.
It makes me happy that our kids are aware of the problems and that they are anxious to talk about them. These kids seem willing to do something about these problems. Their honesty is pretty wonderful. It's the thing that makes me keep teaching after 24 years. It's that hope, and it's the fact that kids are not jaded like adults.