Feel good stories about Rwanda are thin on the ground. Which is how it should be. It's hard to find genocide heartwarming. But in 1993, a few months before Rwanda exploded in bloodshed, something kinda cool happened in a classroom in rural Nebraska.
Global geography teacher Tim Walz decided to try something a little bit different with this group of high school students. Rather than simply require them to memorize facts about the globe and the Holocaust, he had them look deeper into how genocides happen. On the final, he asked them to predict where the next one would be.
The result gives you just a little bit of faith in the American education system. It might also kill any faith you had in people when it comes to avoiding mass murder. But let's focus on the good.
Map credit: Perry-Castenda Library
