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Well, government is just one PART of the social studies/history thing I like teaching. Often econ/gov is a split class, and I think that'd be cool. But being a teacher of the actual "history" labeled classes would be too much work. I think I'd cry if I did that full-time.

Anyway, right now I have mixed grade levels because history classes aren't done by grade here. My certification is grades 7-12 which is, practically speaking, 5/6-12 depending on how desperate a system is and what their set-up is.