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Teacher Asking Students to Think Like Nazis Suspended
BJL ^ | 4/13/13 | AP

Posted on 04/13/2013 9:56:36 PM PDT by Nachum

ALBANY, N.Y. - A high school English teacher in New York state who had students pretend to be Jew-hating Nazis in a writing assignment has been placed on leave.

The teacher at Albany High School caused a storm of criticism after having students practice the art of persuasive writing by penning a letter to a fictitious Nazi government official arguing that "Jews are evil."

District Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard held a news conference Friday to apologize for the assignment.

The Times Union newspaper reported on Saturday that the teacher was not in class on Friday and had been placed on leave by the school district.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimorejewishlife.com ...


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1 posted on 04/13/2013 9:56:36 PM PDT by Nachum
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I’d like the class to write on the topic “Democrats are the Enemies of Freedom”.


2 posted on 04/13/2013 9:58:20 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Nachum

She (he) still has a very bright future in obama’s Dept of Education...


3 posted on 04/13/2013 10:00:21 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them. Gun confiscation enables tyranny.)
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Students are asked everyday to think like little commies, and the commies killed 10 TIMES as many people as the Nazi’s !


4 posted on 04/13/2013 10:04:29 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: Nachum

Oddly enough, all the class’s muslim students scored A+ on the assignment ...


5 posted on 04/13/2013 10:04:55 PM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: Nachum

If they’re DemocRAT wannabes, they don’t have to be told to think like Nazis. They’re already doing that.


6 posted on 04/13/2013 10:05:40 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Bill of Rights?)
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To: Nachum

The teacher is just preparing the children for life under Obama. The only problem is that she got caught and there was nobody to kill the students who refused.


7 posted on 04/13/2013 10:06:01 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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Oddly enough, all the class’s muslim students scored A+ on the assignment ...

LMAO!!
8 posted on 04/13/2013 10:06:47 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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To: Wanderer99

Yes, the teacher is just ahead of the times!


9 posted on 04/13/2013 10:07:03 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Nachum

I’m surprised.


10 posted on 04/13/2013 10:10:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: null and void; flat; Nachum; MamaDearest; seekthetruth; Doogle; Foolsgold; celtic gal; gonzo; ...

Sounds like a great candidate for head of the NEA or she could run for Congress as a Liberal RAT. Another possibility is for her to run as Bloomie’s replacement in NYC.


11 posted on 04/13/2013 10:13:05 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Nachum
-> For the assignment, the teacher asked students 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.”

And she just got suspended; not fired. Oh, guess she just got caught. The influential people over our nation's children are some of the worse ones we have ever had to be concerned with.

12 posted on 04/13/2013 10:13:55 PM PDT by Christie at the beach ( If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.)
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To: Nachum

When Liberals are Nazis.


13 posted on 04/13/2013 10:15:07 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Nachum
Interestingly back in the 50’s this sort of an assignment was pretty common. I remember in 7th grade doing a project about Nazi's that included writing denunciations. There was also a unit on communism in which the same sort of thing was done. The idea was to teach one how powerful and insidious totalitarian ideologies were. I admit many of the males, including several who were Jews got into the spirit of the event pretty enthusiastically. Our teacher, who was a very well educated lady from New England and had lived the 30’s and 40’s experience used this as a teaching point. No rebukes just a homily on ‘see how easy it is to become a Nazi Hitler Youth or a Young Pioneer. See how insidious these regimes are with their powerful images and martial display and nifty uniforms.’ I don't know what this teacher was trying to do but i know showing kids how you can easily end up a true believing totalitarian is pretty powerful and sobering.
14 posted on 04/13/2013 10:16:08 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: Nachum

She jumped the gun. That’s next year’s curriculum.


15 posted on 04/13/2013 10:16:40 PM PDT by TigersEye (If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted)
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To: Nachum

Shaking my head, (in disgust).
These union school teachers have truly hit rock bottom.


16 posted on 04/13/2013 10:18:24 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: robowombat

You’re talking about a history lesson and not about a simpleminded English exercise. I mean what a simpleton this teacher is. “Jews evil”. Uhuh.


17 posted on 04/13/2013 10:18:34 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Nachum

Paid leave, I am sure and they will bring this teacher back when we move onto the next outrage. I hope someone who lives in Albany finds out the name of this teacher. Would like to write him/her a letter myself.


18 posted on 04/13/2013 10:28:43 PM PDT by Hildy (Falling down is how you grow. Staying down is how you die.)
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To: Revolting cat!
Actually it was that product of the shotgun wedding of history and Government known as ‘Social Studies’. Social Studies was an excuse for making both subjects pablum and mush in many places but this was in Northern Virginia and the Cold War was on at full blast. The elementary school i went to was stuffed with either military kids or government workers kids . The latter were then before Viet Nam ‘Cold aWar liberals ‘ almost o a man or woman. That really means 50’s Neo-cons. Everyone more or less figured war with the Soviets was in the cards and the teachers had been around for the 30’s and then the Big War. This was Deweyesque ‘Progressive Ed’ with a real purpose. We took German or Russian names, studied the organization and operations of both the CPUSSR and the NSDAP and tried for several months to ‘live the life’ of a Hitler Jugund or BDM or a Young Pioneer. We organized 'partc cells' and even had drills simulating the slavish adulation of Hitler or Stalin & Co. We all knew the commies were bast-rds we just wanted to 'know the enemy'. It was really intense and we knew who we were, the next generation to face the forces of totalitarianism on the battlefields of either the Cold War or WWIII. Those were intense times and it is impossible for young people today to grasp how serious a business the Cold War was.
19 posted on 04/13/2013 10:44:31 PM PDT by robowombat
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To: null and void

Mavis Beacon Teaches Racism


20 posted on 04/13/2013 11:48:51 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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