Posted on 04/01/2007 12:46:44 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.
It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.
There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades - where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem - because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.
The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using history 'as a vehicle for promoting political correctness'.
The study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, looked into 'emotive and controversial' history teaching in primary and secondary schools.
It found some teachers are dropping courses covering the Holocaust at the earliest opportunity over fears Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic and anti-Israel reactions in class.
The researchers gave the example of a secondary school in an unnamed northern city, which dropped the Holocaust as a subject for GCSE coursework.
The report said teachers feared confronting 'anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils'.
It added: "In another department, the Holocaust was taught despite anti-Semitic sentiment among some pupils.
"But the same department deliberately avoided teaching the Crusades at Key Stage 3 (11- to 14-year-olds) because their balanced treatment of the topic would have challenged what was taught in some local mosques."
A third school found itself 'strongly challenged by some Christian parents for their treatment of the Arab-Israeli conflict-and the history of the state of Israel that did not accord with the teachings of their denomination'.
The report concluded: "In particular settings, teachers of history are unwilling to challenge highly contentious or charged versions of history in which pupils are steeped at home, in their community or in a place of worship."
But Chris McGovern, history education adviser to the former Tory government, said: "History is not a vehicle for promoting political correctness. Children must have access to knowledge of these controversial subjects, whether palatable or unpalatable."
The researchers also warned that a lack of subject knowledge among teachers - particularly at primary level - was leading to history being taught in a 'shallow way leading to routine and superficial learning'.
Lessons in difficult topics were too often 'bland, simplistic and unproblematic' and bored pupils.
Well, they can kill THEMSELVES and then claim to be a martyr, so this isn't such a stretch.
What Sh**
The citizens better get off their ass and not let this stand.
They don't want to teach history and reality but are 24/7 pushing the myth of global warming
See this related thread
Lessons On The Ancients Are History [UK to stop teaching ancient history]
United Kingdom of Islam
Hmmm... Britian sucks up to Muslims in public schools while refusing to make Iran release its kidnapped Brit servicepeople... more than coincidence?
This is nothing less than a re-writing of history. To avoid mention of the Holocaust is to tacitly deny it ever existed.
Muslims are offended because there was a mass slaughter of Jews through Europe? Why is that offensive to them? Because it justifies giving the remaining Jews a country of their own, a strip of desert that JUST HAPPENS to border on more desert land which is nominally under the 'governance' of some wandering tribe of Arabs? The Arabs did not even CARE about Palestine until the Israelis made the desert bloom. The few Arabs who had some sort of title to the land in question were MORE than happy to sell the real estate to the Jews (who paid an unconscionable price at the time for the right to hold title to the land, then and forevermore).
And now the Arabs want to renege on the deal they made decades ago? What are they, some Indian tribe in the middle of New York State that wants back the land they sold to the State of New York in 1790?
THAT land was stolen fair and square. Same with the lands of Palestine from which Israel was carved out.
Religious bigotry is no exception, of course.
ping and homeschooling bump...
It would appear that way. Here is (PDF) the report on Diversity & Citizenship.
http://publications.teachernet.gov.uk/eOrderingDownload/DfES_Diversity_&_Citizenship.pdf
Just what I was thinking, but it seems it is not. I just hope if these IsamiNazis take over we don`t get involved because these Euroweenies are bringing this all on themselves. F- them! It`s absolutely outrageous to me that these IslamiNazis can hold up signs threatening to kill right in the street! and these Euroweenies do absolutely nothing!
http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/muslimprotest.asp
As you post this, Nancy Pelosi is in Damascus Syria meeting with our ememy, or at least a countrie that supports islamic terror.
She is traveling with Congressman Ellison of Minnisota...the first Muslim in the U.S. Congress.
Heil Ahmedinejad....zare es no jewish holocaust... only Zionist lies...
Teach your children well.... (moron liberals..you will be made blinded slaves yielding to liars).....
The left in this country had better learn that it would be wiser to start offending Muslims, because they are beginning to offend American patriots like me and I am getting mad as hell about this trend. Congress has just set the stage for civil war in this country and they are on the wrong side and so are the liver-bellied left who don't want to offend the Muslims.
Now they ignore the Holocaust, next they will deny it. Sooner or later the leftists will go all the way and rehabilitate the Nazis and praise the Holocaust. The leftists will do anything, anything -- no matter how low -- to help their friends the Islamofascists. There is no totalitarian system they don't love.
touche'
Well, the enviro-freeko-libs have a pretty strong movement going to ban CO2!!
Of course the fact that CO2 comprises 0.54% of the atmosphere and is dwarfed by water vapor as the primary greenhouse gas, makes no difference. Neither does the fact that mankind contributes only about 15% of that 0.54% and volcanos, cows and termites contribute by far the bulk of CO2.
Its the "Ignorant Luddite" Movement or is that redundant?
That should be the tip off!
Survival of the fittest...and it's looking like Muslims are the fittest. They don't back down...they don't retreat...the don't fear death...they use our freedoms against us....get ready for the next dark ages.
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