Students Find Voice Through Forensics; Revival Is Helping Central City Pupils Blossom

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Keenya Hofmaier's exhortation inside Bay View High School to "Look around you" has a dramatic, thought-provoking quality to it, even on a sleepy Saturday morning and even though she is talking about ancient history.

Hofmaier speaks on The Silk Road, suggesting that the ancient route between East and West influences modern life including this very moment inside the high school in all sorts of ways.

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Students Find Voice Through Forensics; Revival Is Helping Central City Pupils Blossom

The junior at Milwaukee's Riverside High School looks the audience in the eye. She knows her facts and expresses them with panache as she explains that the road was not simply used to trade silk but also for the transmission of all goods and knowledge between East and West starting in 500 B.C. "Probably the most remarkable commodity to be carried along the road was religion," Hofmaier notes.

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