Brian Lairer on WNYC and building off what Richard Rothstein was just saying there about the desire to know in this country.

We're going to take advantage of the fact that this is a holiday and teachers are off from work

by having a call in to end this Martin Luther King Day show for a group of people who usually can't participate

and those of you are teachers. Obviously, you usually can't call in at this time of dead.

So here's the question. Teachers listening right now, how do you teach the cause of the civil war?

You know why I am asking that question to your students of any age. And if you've been teaching for a long time or maybe even if you're recently retired, how has the teaching of enslavement, of Jim Crow, of discrimination in our area, even here in the New York area, in the North, and racial inequality generally changed over the course of your career.

Has it become more sophisticated?

Has it become deeper?

Has it become emotionally with a different tone than it had at the beginning of your career?

Teachers, the phones are yours for last 15 minutes today.

212-433 WNYC, 212, 433-9692.

Teachers are recently retired teachers.

How do you teach the cause or causes of the civil war to your students of any age?

How do you teach racial inequality in any era in U.S. history, including today, to your

students of any age?

And has that changed for you as a teacher?

Has the curriculum changed?

Has your relationship with it changed?

Has the way you communicate it changed over time during

your career. 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433-9692. Teachers, history teachers, current affairs teachers,

whoever's relevant to this, call in. And why do we frame it

this way? Well, I'm sure you've heard Nikki Haley's widely criticized explanation of the causes of the

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