[E. Pluribus Unum]

The assignment asked students to discuss whether the Holocaust “was an actual event in history,” or whether it was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain...”

Sort of like anthropogenic global-warming/climate change?

Sounds like the Alinskyites are projecting again.

[skinkinthegrass]

eight graders...talk about educational malfeasance.
shouldn't this course-work be in 9th / 10th grade?

[Sans-Culotte]

It was probably a useful assignment to see how the students’ minds would filter out propaganda from fact. I have no problem with the assignment. However, all the kids who felt it was a hoax, or exaggerated, should have received F’s for demonstrating a half-assed approach to research. The “teachable moment” would have been explaining to the idiots the error of their ways.

[SMARTY]

“...or whether it was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain...”

Hmmm...Like the ‘children’ coming up here now.

[bigbob]

If asked to define “holocaust” I suspect more than half would say it’s a computer-generated 3D effect.

[BitWielder1]

The Holocaust is probably the best documented atrocity in human history, by Jews, Germany and Allied forces alike.
Very hard to argue it's all fake.

[rockrr]

50 little leftist aspiring 3rd Reicher’s ;’)

[17th Miss Regt]

district administrators insisted that not one single student had argued against the reality of the Holocaust

Not one single student, but rather 50 or more of them. So technically the adminstrators are correct. The administrators are also weasels of the worst sort.

[GeronL]

district administrators insisted that not one single student had argued against the reality of the Holocaust.

Leftists never tell the truth

[a fool in paradise]

You are entitled to your own opinion, but you aren’t entitled to your own set of facts. - Ronald Reagan