Teachers tackle white nationalism, other hot issues in the classroom | MLive.com"YPSILANTI, MI - As the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August put white nationalism center stage in national discussion, teachers in Washtenaw County and across the country wondered how they would talk to their students about what happened.
Lynne Settles, an art teacher at Ypsilanti Community High School, knew she would offer her students the same thing she had before in similar situations: the chance to process their feelings through art.
...Now in the second week of the school year, Settles said she's still establishing relationships with her students, and they haven't yet delved into a class discussion about the attacks in Charlottesville and President Donald Trump's controversial response that there was "blame on both sides" - the white nationalists and the counter-protesters - for the violence..."
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