Big Brother Is Teaching You

Students file into a classroom. Outside, taped to the teacher's door are handmade posters praising the 'Chairman.' Others condemn the ‘dictator.’  Welcome to a history class - a simulation -- under the strict rule of Chairman Greer. Robert Greer is teaching a unit on totalitarianism in an unconventional way. He has got his 7th grade students to participate in the simulation in which there are spies, a Clothing Officer, and a Propaganda Officer. Students can earn and lose points for their participation. The Chairman is, by design, unpredictable. Sso everyone has to be on their guard - including party members. 

It's a fun class, if you consider simulation fun. I was a fly on the wall --um, a sort of a spy with a recorder observing how it went over two days. Now you have an inside view too!