Just before Clint Tawes’ American literature class began at Effingham County High School, images from the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol were playing on his iPad. “Why aren’t they being arrested?” one student asked. “If they were Black they would’ve been,” said another. Soon after, the bell rang and Tawes began his planned instruction on Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech. The next day Tawes was called into the principal’s office. He said Effingham County Principal Amie Dickerson asked him about the comment just before class after a white student’s parents complained to her about it.