Caysey Driggers

Driggers came up with the idea for "The Holocaust: A Remembrance Class" as a way of preserving the historical elements surrounding one of the world's most horrific modern-day tragedies. This pilot project will include about 180 eleventh and twelfth graders whose knowledge of events preceding and following the Holocaust will be evaluated through a series of student-produced video diaries, written essays and classroom examinations. Exploration of this topic will help students understand the rise of Nazism and its subsequent effect on the United States. They will uncover the factors that made the Third Reich so powerful as well as describe the events leading up to the resistance, rescue and eventual liberation of the concentration camps. The project will incorporate history, language arts and technology into each presentation. Driggers hopes that highlighting the dangers of prejudice and oppression will inspire students to publicly speak out against atrocities currently happening in our world today. He lives in Boiling Springs.