NY school dist apologizes for Jews are evil assignment.

[powderman]

New York school district apologizes for 'Jews are evil' assignment  Published April 12, 2013
FoxNews.com   An upstate New York school district apologized Friday for a high school writing assignment that asked students to “argue Jews are evil” while making a persuasive argument blaming them for the problems of Nazi Germany.
Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard said administrators were discussing what official action the unidentified 10th-grade teacher at Albany High School will face for the assignment given to students on Monday.
 
According to The Epoch Times, the teacher has been removed from the class.
The assignment, first reported Friday by the Albany Times Union, asked students to research Nazi propaganda, then assume their teacher was a Nazi government official who had to be convinced of their loyalty. The assignment told students they "must argue that Jews are evil."
 
"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," Wyngaard said at a news conference Friday at the United Jewish Federation. "I'm deeply apologetic to all of our students, all of our families and the entire community."
 
Wyngaard spoke in a room full of books on the Holocaust and was flanked by school board officials and representatives of Jewish organizations. Speakers said the Anti-Defamation League will run sensitivity programs at the school for staff and students.
"After this unfortunate lesson we know that the Albany School District will rededicate themselves to teaching about how prejudice led to genocide and to help their students build a better community," said Shelly Shapiro, director of the Holocaust Survivors & Friends Education Center.
 
School officials say they don't believe the teacher who handed out the assignment had malicious intent. The purpose of the assignment was to have students make an argument based on limited information, but it should have been worded differently, officials said.
The school district has not named the teacher, who was described as a veteran. The assignment was brought to administrators' attention by a parent of one of the students. Some students refused to write the assignment.
 
The teacher's assignment told students they "must argue that Jews are evil, and use solid rationale from government propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich!"
Earlier this year, a teacher at Public School 59 in Manhattan caused a controversy by giving fourth-graders a math homework assignment that used scenarios about killing and whipping slaves.  The school's principal ordered sensitivity training for the entire staff.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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[BBF]

OOOPS !!
 
That didn't turn out all that well.

[reliquary]

In Texas, the schools are laboring under a state-run curriculum called C-SCOPE.  I don't remember what the initials stand for.  But the curriculum has been standardized to the point that teachers only "parrot" what the lessons are supposed to be for that day.  They are being asked to do some strange things.
 
One of the strange things that they've had to do is assign the students to write a news article from the standpoint of the British, reporting on the Boston Tea Party as an act of terrorism. 
 
Maybe the teacher from NY can get a job down here.

[coyotejoe]

I can't get too upset over this. I think the teacher was challenging the students to do extensive research and formulat a convincing arguement in support of a totaly preposterous position. I don't believe the teacher was trying to convince the students to an anti-semetic point of view but rather I think he knew that after doing the research the students would see it was a ridiculous position to take but still were to use their skills and talents to make the best case they could for that belief. I doubt any student was converted to the Hitler Youth.

[powderman]

Typical example of a sick liberal mind in the teaching profession. POWDERMAN.