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ALBANY, GA -- Two days into the post-bin Laden era the death of the world's most notorious terrorist is still the hot topic of conversation. Especially in schools.

“A lot of people have been talking about it, like right off the bat I heard a lot of people talking about and my friend texted me and told me about it,” said Westover High School freshman Hope Johnson.

“We've really been talking about how this will affect the upcoming elections and we've been talking about how this will affect the morale of our government and how this will affect the way things are going in America,” said freshmen Othellious Cato.

For teachers the events mean an impromptu adjustment to their lesson plans, but also an opportunity to teach living history.

“There were only about two students who were not familiar with Osama bin Laden. I was getting ready to teach cold war ideology so this fit in pretty well,” said social studies teacher Constance Wehner.

Students say they recognize the significance of last weekend's events.

“We need to discuss it. If we don't know what's going on than our generation won't be able to be alert about everything and this is our history so we need to know it,” said Johnson.

“There are many people that are very happy about it because they did have loved ones that either went over there looking for him. They have loved ones that lost their lives over there,” said Reginald Sherman, a senior who plans to enlist in the Marines.

Many of those high school kids have vivid memories of the Twin Towers falling. But how do you go about talking about bin Laden’s death with younger children, many of which can't remember or weren't even born when 9-11 happened.

“It was a very strong concern for me, but initially students actually came to me asking me questions, so as a result I was able just to answer their questions,” said Anwar Sadler, a fifth grade teacher at Northside Elementary School.

Sadler he says while it is tough talking about the death of a person. It was an issue that could not be ignored.

“Kids are much smarter then we give them credit for, thus we must be up front with them so they can have the knowledge base they need when they become adults so they can share the knowledge with their kids as well,” said Sadler.