These kids may be my students next year . . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/education/27history.html

*Note: I’m not saying this from on-high.  I admit to not knowing who or what the German Kaiser was, and had to look it up.  I may, though, need to rethink the way I teach Southern literature if some of my students don’t know when the Civil War happened . . .