Highschool Teacher in Trouble for Writing Assignment

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NY district mulls action for Nazi assignment

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A high school English teacher could face disciplinary action for giving a writing assignment that asked students to make a persuasive argument blaming Jews for the problems of Nazi Germany, Albany school district officials said Friday.

School district spokesman Ron Lesko said administrators were discussing what official action the 10th-grade teacher at Albany High School could face for the assignment given to students on Monday.

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."

A third of the students refused to complete 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.

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[Darnell 8,478]

oops.

[mota bhai 2,675]

Despite the naivete of so many on both the political right and left, anti-Semitism is still very much alive. Those stereotypes of Jewish people that serve no purpose other than to paint them in a light that makes them easier to hate when that becomes suitable for the authorities are still out there.

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