Liz Dwyer contemplates how teachers addressed bin Laden's death in classrooms given the ignorance of many of their students:
We like to think teachers automatically know the right things to say. But when they're going through their certification programs, there's no special class on how to make meaning from the assassination of a terrorist.
Joy Resmovits has an article on how teachers across the country dealt with the story:
“My first impression is that…most of them have no clue anymore who al Qaeda is and who Osama bin Laden was,” [high school teacher Dan Anderson] said. “He’s some kind of mythic figure to them.” The students, he said, seemed engaged, muttering “uh huh” as they finally received explanations of terms that pervaded the news during their upbringing.
(Photo of Gary Weddle, a middle school teacher who refused to shave after 9/11 until bin Laden was captured or killed.)
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