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New York schools apologise for 'Nazi' class assignment
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New York schools apologise for 'Nazi' class assignment
BBC World News. No comment. LL
Albany schools apologise for 'Nazi' class assignment
A New York state teacher is facing disciplinary action for assigning students to argue Jews were to blame for the problems of Nazi Germany.
The Albany High School teacher asked students to assume they were convincing a Nazi official of their loyalty.
A third of the students refused to complete the English class assignment.
The school system's superintendent says she believed that the teacher bore no ill intent but that the assignment should have been worded differently.
Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard said school administrators were discussing what action to take, at a press conference at the United Jewish Federation.
"This assignment for some of our students at Albany High School was completely unacceptable. It displayed a level of insensitivity that we absolutely will not tolerate in our school community," she told reporters.
"I'm deeply apologetic to all of our students, all of our families and the entire community."
Measures could range from a letter of counsel to dismissal.
School board members and representatives from Jewish organisations joined her at the briefing.
The English teacher, who has not been named, asked students to pick a method of argument and review a packet of Nazi propaganda in order to make a persuasive argument that "Jews are evil and the source of our problems".
"Please remember - your life [here in Nazi Germany in the 1930s] may depend on it. You do not have a choice in your position... use solid rationale from government propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich."
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Re: New York schools apologise for 'Nazi' class assignment
I remember doing a project not unlike that in Modern History, LL - though not so tasteless.
The students had to think ourselves into the situation of German voters in the 1933 election and vote accordingly, NOT allowing ourselves the wisdom of hindsight....
That project is taking it too far, though, and was bound to, rightly, cause offence.
The students had to think ourselves into the situation of German voters in the 1933 election and vote accordingly, NOT allowing ourselves the wisdom of hindsight....
That project is taking it too far, though, and was bound to, rightly, cause offence.
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Yer, well, difficult to know what to say. Quite a lot of Germans possibly did live in fear of their own lives. But that was then and not now. If this was an exercise in Cowardice I might have seen some point to it. Would you have been such a coward? Pointless asking students that because they simply cannot know.
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Agree, it's as pointless as our mock-election was, because people cannot blank from their minds what they now know, if that makes sense?
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And nor can they put into their minds what they didn't know, and never will. Me? I would probably have been a coward, but I am old enough to know why.
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Re: New York schools apologise for 'Nazi' class assignment
And many brave Germans did do everything they could to sabotage the regime, rescue Jews, etc. Many paid with their lives, but not all.
We'd all like to think we would be one of the brave ones, but as LL has pointed out before, Brits have never lived under a dictatorship, and it's a thousand years since the last invasion of England.
We'd all like to think we would be one of the brave ones, but as LL has pointed out before, Brits have never lived under a dictatorship, and it's a thousand years since the last invasion of England.
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It's a huge dilemma, do you accept what is happening, bolt the door, turn your back and keep your loved ones safe, or do you stand up, cry foul and watch as they are dragged off to prison or worse? Be thankful anyone who has never had to make that choice, it can scar you for life. LL
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Well said, you guys.
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