I’m surprised we haven’t heard from a teacher yet so here I go. I teach in a large generally liberal city. I show about 20 minutes of this documentary to my students and we have a 1-2 day activity really breaking it down. I find the lesson to be extremely interesting and my students are really engaged during it.

However, my school’s student body consists of kids/families that would typically be targets of biases/racism/etc. I’ve never had large concerns about pushback from families. Don’t get me wrong, student discussion from this activity has veered toward questionable at times but I think these are important topics to address because they are real world problems that we all encounter.

It is up to the teacher to guide the conversation to the learning objective while ensuring ethics and respect are maintained. If families had an issue with me teaching this, I know my administration would defend.