I ask why Not!? ;)
Posted on 04/12/2013 11:40:05 AM PDT by rickmichaels
ALBANY, N.Y. - An Albany, New York high school English teacher who asked students to imagine they were Nazis and give reasons why Jews were evil may be disciplined, a school district spokesman said on Friday.
Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard was expected to personally apologize on Friday to families of Albany High School students who were given the writing assignment, said Ron Lesko, a spokesman for the district.
Vanden Wyngaard issued an apology in the press on Thursday night after a local newspaper reporter showed school officials the assignment, which had been published on the paper’s website.
Lesko confirmed that an English teacher this week gave three classes of students a persuasive writing assignment as part of a class project to demonstrate how Nazis thought and showed their loyalty to the Third Reich before the Second World War.
“We know who the teacher is and we are considering disciplinary action but don’t know what it is at this time,” Lesko said. “This is an ongoing priority conversation.”
One-third of the students refused to complete the task, which was assigned following a class review of Nazi propaganda and directed them to imagine that their teacher was a Nazi official, Lesko confirmed.
The superintendent said the assignment was meant to be an academic exercise that was part of the district’s new curriculum, which stresses argumentative writing and connects English with history. However, she said the assignment was offensive.
The one-page assignment asked the students to picture themselves back in a troubled time in history leading up to the Second World War.
“You need to pretend that I am a member of the government in Nazi Germany, and you are being challenged to consider that you are loyal to the Nazis by writing an essay convincing me that Jews are evil and the source of our problems,” said the assignment instructions.
Students were asked for an introduction, conclusion and a list of arguments and were advised, “Please remember your life (here in Nazi Germany in the 30s) depends on it!”
Earlier this year, teachers in Georgia and New York City got into trouble because students were asked to use numbers of slave whippings to calculate math problems.
wonderful! the Nazi (Or IslamoNazi) movement is alive and well, rotting out America, and the classroom is apparently a big part of the agenda....
apology bull$hit!
The idiot was caught.
I ask why Not!? ;)
What are the chances that the teacher was one of Holder’s people, given that the school was in Albany?
Why don’t Jews get it? Most Democratic Goyim are antisemites, and Holder’s people are the worst.
It is time that school boards start firing these small pockets of unhingemental midget “teachers” for behavior considered unprofessional and craven.
The Jews are almost 100% behind the anti-Semitic muslim sock-puppet Obambi, Holder, Clinton, and the rest of this jackass’s cabinet. They absolutely hate Jews . . . but they’ll still get the Jewish votes . . . What the hell’s the matter with them?
These government indoctrinators somehow think they’re going to slide by and not be caught. All hell would break loose if the same statement were applied to the most protected class in the world: muslims.
anti-christianism
Exactly. I’m getting tired of all of these damn “apologies” when these morons get caught.
Not that hard to do.
What the H*LL is wrong with these people?
And then teachers wonder why every other White Collar Professional holds their career choice in utter contempt.
Foolishness eberywhere.
There’s another reason Obama likes the teachers’ unions so much - philosophical agreement.
You just did the teachers assignment, LOL.
They’re evil!
I think that the assignment sounds legitimate. It was to let students look at the world from a different point of view and to produce a persuasive argument based on that point of view.
I think the real reason that the teacher got in trouble is because the students were asked to think independently and in a manner not approved of by the administration. Too much of that stuff and you get independent thinkers, not mindless sheep. Can't have that for our future voters!
The ‘39 socialists have secured the US.
It’s their nation now.
Judging from the comments on this thread, you and I are in a definite minority with that train of thought.
Good God...in New York,of all places.OTOH,having kids write about why Christians are evil...no surprise.Something doesn’t compute here.
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