[Spok]

"the district will require all high schoolers to take a full-year course on the subject."

They must have figured out that if this class were elective, no one would take it-of any color.

[dangus]

A FULL YEAR???!!!
Lessee...
World History - 1 year
Greek-1 month
Other Ancient - 1 month
Roman - 1 month
Asian - 1 month
The evils of early Christianity - 1 month
The evils of the Catholic Church (AKA, the reformation) - 1 month
The Age of exploration - 1 month
Hitler, Stalin, and the evils of American foreign policy - 1 month
China, India, Japan, Indochina, etc. - 1 month

AFRICAN HISTORY - 1 year
AMERICAN HISTORY (a.k.a., bitching about Whitey) - 1 year

Yeah, that seems about right.

[SedVictaCatoni]

They must have figured out that if this class were elective, no one would take it-of any color.

Did you make it to the fourth paragraph?

[Centurion2000]

James Sullivan, a senior, learned the bittersweet news that his maternal family descends from the Ibo tribe in Nigeria, and that they came to the U.S. as slaves.

How is this bittersweet ? He should take a long hard look at that country and ask himself "Should my family have stayed?"