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Schools Drop Holocaust "to Avoid Causing Offence"
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by Jordan Yerman | May 24, 2007 at 07:46 am
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Schools in the UK are evidently dropping the Holocaust, in which Nazis slaughtered over ten million Jews, prisoners of war, homosexuals, and political/cultrual prisoners, for fear of offending the private beliefs of students, and going against "changed versions" of history that kids are gettign taught at home.
Leaving aside (for the moment) the issues of antisemitism, revisionism racism, and integration, the pertinent question here is, if a child is taught at home that one and one are three, should the teacher refrain from correcting that child? If not, what is the point of formalized education?
Teachers are dropping controversial subjects such as the Holocaust and the Crusades from history lessons because they do not want to cause offence to children from certain races or religions, a report claims.A lack of factual knowledge among some teachers, particularly in primary schools, is also leading to “shallow” lessons on emotive and difficult subjects, according to the study by the Historical Association.
The report, produced with funding from the Department for Education, said that where teachers and staff avoided emotive and controversial history, their motives were generally well intentioned.
“Staff may wish to avoid causing offence or appearing insensitive to individuals or groups in their classes. In particular settings, teachers of history are unwilling to challenge highly contentious or charged versions of history in which pupils are steeped at home, in their community or in a place of worship,” it concluded.
(Disclosure: jordan is a descendant of two Holocaust survivors, and, despite what Mel Gibson's dad thinks, it really happened)
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at 08:59 on May 24th, 2007
My Opinion Countries and schools who do not adequately teach histories atrocites in order to prevent this from happening again, will undoubtably witness genocides in the future. Hard to believe our PC culture can be such and ass when it comes to not wanting to offend others beliefs. Guess they may as well throw out evolution to to safeguard christian beliefs that the world is only 2,000 years old or something. Didn't Pol Pot do something like this erasing history, in the 60-70s, I think thee is a testament to his teachings as well, a million or so skulls of men,women,children neatly stacked in buildings. Someone in the British government certainly needs a swift visit to a concentration camp.