You’re doing a great job! Teaching is so difficult but can also be very rewarding.
You are doing what you can and that is better than they’d get most other places.
I have a question to ask. I taught in HS in AL in 1973 and after that did some substituting. Just after the TV drama "Roots", I filled in for the Social Studies HS teacher (one HS in this town). She always requested me because one of my majors was Soc. Stud.
The students all wanted to discuss "Roots"; or I should say, wanted to make known their feelings about slavery, white people, etc.
I realized most or all of them had very static ideas about slavery, imbibed, no doubt, from J. Jackson and years of being taught their victimhood.
They seemed to think slavery in thr US was the only time slavery had ever occurred; that white people sailed up to Africa, went inland, rounded up Africans and loaded the slave boats. They had no concept at all of worldwide slavery; the role of Arabs and their slave marts; the role of village chieftains and even parents in selling their subjects/children; white slavery; the ongong slavery in areas today.
What kind of take on this subject do you or your students have?
vaudine