How appropriate something like this came up on the first evening of Passover...
My deep rooted anger about this is infinite.
An excerpt from an article at the UK website www.somethingjewishuk.co.uk
Link to article
"A small number of schools in Britain are dropping teaching the Holocaust for fear it may offend some pupils, a Government funded report by the Historical Association has found.
According to the report, teachers have taken Holocaust education out of the classroom for fear it may inspire some Muslim pupils to express anti-Semitism.
The report revealed that teachers are worried about having to deal with "anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils"."
HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT????? How about MY family that "had to deal with it"? Let's ask my cousin Cecile, who at 2 years old watched as her entire family was taken away to the camps. The only reason she survived was that a Christian family in the same building grabbed her from the staircase and shoved her in their armoir so that she wouldn't be found. The only other survivors from her family were her mother and sister who made it through the camps.
Or maybe we should ask the families of the 9/11 victims how they feel about "not offending" these students.....
How dare they - TEACHERS, ignore a significant part of global history in order not to offend. It is their JOB to impart knowledge and by not addressing this portion of HUMAN history are doing their students a great disservice - not to mention pissing off a lot of people.
I can't write anymore....... my head is about to explode.
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