We were doing a vote-with-your-feet kind of activity on the topic of courage. Students were presented with different scenarios and then asked to move to one side of the room if they thought the story illustrated courage and the other side if they felt it did not.
We got to one about a secret service agent who takes a bullet for the president he is protecting. "Is that courage?" I asked.
The students sorted themselves based on their evaluation of the situation, and as I stood in the center of the room my eyebrows raised. All the boys were on the side of not courage, while all the girls were on the courage side.
"He literally risked his life to save the president!" one of the girls explained her position.
To which all the boys roared, "It was his job!"
Not sure what to make of that split.
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