Dirty Boots: Civics in Alabama

Dirty Boots: Irregular Attempts at Critical Thinking and Border Crossing offers a Deep Southern, Generation X perspective on the culture, politics, and general milieu of the 21st century. We have, in Alabama, students and parents who are upset by the passage of Sen. Arthur Orr’s SB32, which will require Alabama’s high school seniors to pass a civics exam to graduate, starting in the 2018 – 2019 school year. In a state with lagging educational achievement, the addition of any new graduation requirement will produce ill-will in certain sectors of the population.… Read more Dirty Boots: Civics in Alabama →