After reading "The History Teacher", I have been thinking a lot about crossing that extremely fine line. The line between, protecting someone and lying to them. Most would agree that this so called teacher was ignoring all the important and painful truths and essentially lying to his students. By doing this, this man is completely undermining his job as a history teacher. Because why do we learn history? To remember tragedies and learn from our mistakes to make sure these things never happen again. The students in the poem were already showing signs of aggression and cruelty. Without proper instruction they simply cannot learn. Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy can be debated over, but history can absolutely not be glossed over and changed.
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