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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers have to follow a pacing schedule so no, they don't just stop what they are teaching to talk about current events.[/quote]

+1 pacing schedules are relentless. You can look up the MoCo math schedule online, for example. Every week is prescribed. Within each week there are subtopics and pre-written lesson plans. This is why children have homework over snow days now: Teachers can’t afford to get “behind” until standardized testing has passed.

Discussion of impeachment also has to be relevant to the curriculum. It would usually only come up in social studies/history or government. It’s possible that students might discuss it during homeroom or use a debate club to talk about it. It would make the most sense to connect it in to a related topic. So if I were teaching government, I might not talk about it during a unit on the judicial branch and hold it instead for a conversation about checks and balances, the executive branch, or the legislative branch.

Then there’s the fear factor. Anyone who has taught “controversial” topics like American history, government, or sex ed can tell you that we’ve had challenges with parents. Parents often want to review and pre-approve every lesson when we wade into such territory. Some of us have had parents pre-emptively threaten our jobs before ever teaching our first lesson plan on such topics. In the current political climate with so many strong feelings, it’s terrifying to wade into these topics when there are families with diverse views and a diverse sense of appropriate boundaries enrolled at area schools. [/quote]

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