This level if indoctrination is scary! But moreover; what reasoning is behind this?
Assignment Asking Students Whether The Holocaust Was Real Results In Disturbing Answers And Grades
Approximately 2,000 eighth graders in the Rialto, CA, school district received a shocking in-class essay assignment in May, which led to an outcry from the community and a public apology from district administrators.
The assignment asked students to discuss whether the Holocaust “was an actual event in history,” or whether it was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain,” the San Bernadino Sun reports.
After the justified outrage ensued, district administrators insisted that not one single student had argued against the reality of the Holocaust.
But the San Bernadino Sun, after sifting through hundreds of student essays, have already found at least 50 which show that that was a lie.
“I believe the event was fake, according to source 2 the event was exhaggerated,” one student wrote. (Students’ and teachers’ original spelling and grammar are retained throughout this story.) “I felt that was strong enogh evidence to persuade me the event was a hoax.”
In some cases, students earned high marks and praise for arguing the Holocaust never occurred, with teachers praising their well-reasoned arguments:
“you did well using the evidence to support your claim,” the above student’s teacher wrote on his assignment.
The students were asked to use sources – printouts from About.com, History.com, and Holocaust denial site BibleBelievers.org.au – to construct an argument for or against the validity of the Holocaust.
The fact that impressionable students are being led to disbelieve that 6 million Jews across Europe were massacred has caused many in the community to express grief.
“Students got high praise and grades for writing that the Holocaust was a hoax. I’m sick about that, I’m sick about that,” said Rabbi Suzanne Singer of Temple Beth El in Riverside. “It’s worse than I thought it was.”
It’s beyond shameful that educators would use their authority to help perpetuate the idea that the Holocaust is a “myth.” They do not belong in the field of education, and they do not belong around children.
Assignment Asking Students Whether The Holocaust Was Real Results In Disturbing Answers And Grades
Approximately 2,000 eighth graders in the Rialto, CA, school district received a shocking in-class essay assignment in May, which led to an outcry from the community and a public apology from district administrators.
The assignment asked students to discuss whether the Holocaust “was an actual event in history,” or whether it was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain,” the San Bernadino Sun reports.
After the justified outrage ensued, district administrators insisted that not one single student had argued against the reality of the Holocaust.
But the San Bernadino Sun, after sifting through hundreds of student essays, have already found at least 50 which show that that was a lie.
“I believe the event was fake, according to source 2 the event was exhaggerated,” one student wrote. (Students’ and teachers’ original spelling and grammar are retained throughout this story.) “I felt that was strong enogh evidence to persuade me the event was a hoax.”
In some cases, students earned high marks and praise for arguing the Holocaust never occurred, with teachers praising their well-reasoned arguments:
“you did well using the evidence to support your claim,” the above student’s teacher wrote on his assignment.
The students were asked to use sources – printouts from About.com, History.com, and Holocaust denial site BibleBelievers.org.au – to construct an argument for or against the validity of the Holocaust.
The fact that impressionable students are being led to disbelieve that 6 million Jews across Europe were massacred has caused many in the community to express grief.
“Students got high praise and grades for writing that the Holocaust was a hoax. I’m sick about that, I’m sick about that,” said Rabbi Suzanne Singer of Temple Beth El in Riverside. “It’s worse than I thought it was.”
It’s beyond shameful that educators would use their authority to help perpetuate the idea that the Holocaust is a “myth.” They do not belong in the field of education, and they do not belong around children.
