Antisemitic Teacher Demands Students Write Love Letters to Hitler!

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Howey

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I guess this is ok in Bravo's book.

http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/14/nazi-...-york-pupils-say-it-didnt-make-sense-3615363/

A high school teacher who told students to pretend to be Nazis writing a letter arguing why ‘Jews are evil’ has been placed on leave.

The ‘veteran’ English teacher at Albany High School, in New York state, was apparently instructing pupils to hone the art of persuasive writing with a letter to a fictitious Nazi government official.

Some of the children in the three sophomore English classes refused to write the essay.

District superintendent Marguerite Wyngaard held a news conference to apologise for the assignment, describing it as ‘completely unacceptable’, but saying she did not believe it was malicious.

The district has not named the teacher.

The Times Union newspaper said the teacher was not in class on Friday and had been placed on leave by the school district, which is looking to take some form of disciplinary action and bring in sensitivity trainers from the Anti-Defamation League to work with teachers and pupils.

The writing assignment was done before a planned class reading of the memoir Night, by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

For the assignment, the teacher asked pupils to research Nazi propaganda then write a letter trying to convince an official of the Third Reich ‘that Jews are evil and the source of our problems’.
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Howey said:
I guess this is ok in Bravo's book.

http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/14/nazi-...-york-pupils-say-it-didnt-make-sense-3615363/
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I frankly can't see what is so wrong to get pupils to stretch themselves intellectually. In secondary school we used to do essays like that where you were asked to defend a contrary viewpoint. Why is the word veteran in italics, that is a form of ageism to my mind. Oh and where does it say that the teacher is anti-semitic in the article, that's your spin Howey. It does say that the writing assignment was to be done before a planned class reading of the memoir Night, by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. Explain to me why a supposed anti-semite would do that?
 
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