Well that's darn tootin'. I'm pretty much convinced that racism has died in the South long ago, and I still am. Hopefully, that man is just the odd one out of the bunch. ._.
As I've learned in my High School career, teachers usually bluff about these things. If I had taken into consideration what my teachers said to not take, I would have never gotten to where I am now. I didn't do so hot in Middle School (partly because of the language issue, though it wasn't really that big of a deal), but I worked hard and did very well in advanced classes in High School, much to the surprise of my old teachers. Just sign up for it if you still can; there's no real downside.
Haha, that's the power I granted Denmark's axe. It supposedly cuts a country's GDP per capita by $20,000 each time it hits another Hetalia country. XD