There is nothing to make you feel like a failure as an educator so much as to reach the end of the semester, give your students a journal question that gets at the myths you've been seeking to dispel all semester, and to receive entries like (these are not actual entries):
"I don't know what we can do. Things are different now. Discrimination and slavery ended over 100 years ago."
or
"I think the counter-protestors are right. I'm tired of immigrants coming in and taking our jobs. No one wants them here."
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For what it's worth, you're not alone. I find that changing my definition of success has helped immensely in the fight to retain my sanity where that's concerned.
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