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Assignment Asking Students Whether The Holocaust Was Real Results In Disturbing Answers And Grades
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| Caroline Schaeffer
Posted on 07/16/2014 8:13:45 AM PDT by Morgana
Approximately 2,000 eighth graders in the Rialto, CA, school district received a shocking in-class essay assignment in May, which led to an outcry from the community and a public apology from district administrators.
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, the San Bernadino Sun reports.
After the justified outrage ensued, district administrators insisted that not one single student had argued against the reality of the Holocaust.
But the San Bernadino Sun, after sifting through hundreds of student essays, have already found at least 50 which show that that was a lie.
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TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: academicbias; antisemitism; fakebutaccurate; fraud; hitler; holocaust; holocaustdeniers; liesbyomission; lyingliars; revisionisthistory; wwtwo
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posted on
07/16/2014 8:13:45 AM PDT
by
Morgana
To: Morgana
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.
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posted on
07/16/2014 8:17:26 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
To: Morgana; All
eight graders...talk about educational malfeasance.
shouldn't this course-work be in 9th / 10th grade?
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posted on
07/16/2014 8:20:35 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...0'Jihadist/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
To: Morgana
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.
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posted on
07/16/2014 8:25:17 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
To: Morgana
“...or whether it was merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain...”
Hmmm...Like the ‘children’ coming up here now.
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posted on
07/16/2014 8:28:39 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
To: Morgana
If asked to define “holocaust” I suspect more than half would say it’s a computer-generated 3D effect.
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posted on
07/16/2014 8:36:34 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Imagine the stink if they had asked “Did slavery actually exist in the US?”
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posted on
07/16/2014 8:37:20 AM PDT
by
rfreedom4u
(Your feelings don't trump my free speech!)
To: Morgana
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.
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posted on
07/16/2014 8:46:13 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Morgana
50 little leftist aspiring 3rd Reicher’s ;’)
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posted on
07/16/2014 8:47:03 AM PDT
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: Morgana
district administrators insisted that not one single student had argued against the reality of the HolocaustNot 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.
To: Morgana
district administrators insisted that not one single student had argued against the reality of the Holocaust.Leftists never tell the truth
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posted on
07/16/2014 9:32:23 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: BitWielder1
The Germans kept good records.
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posted on
07/16/2014 9:33:26 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: GeronL
Those of us who live in San Bernardino resent its being misspelled.
To: Morgana
You are entitled to your own opinion, but you aren’t entitled to your own set of facts. - Ronald Reagan
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posted on
07/16/2014 10:22:20 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
To: GeronL
The Germans kept good records. Yeah. Six million died of heart failure.
To: Focault's Pendulum
lol
doesn’t everyone die that way?
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posted on
07/16/2014 10:31:14 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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