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.
It's time for someone to grow a backbone and show these islamic fascist terrorists what for!!
By the same logic, schools would no longer promote the homosexual agenda for fear of offending Muslims.
Curious to see how many liberal, jewish democrats will go goose-stepping along with this insane idealogy...
This story is from the U.K.
Britain is my favorite Islamic state.
They won't teach the history of the Crusades because it contradicts the mosques? Do the mosques agree with Darwinism?
All three of my children spent a great deal of time the last six weeks studying the Holocaust - even going on field trips to see the play of The Diary of Anne Frank.
Oh but wait. I live in the US. I live in Texas.
How many schools were studied?
How much time do UK teachers spend covering the Gulags and the systematic genocidal horrors practiced by Lenin and Stalin? About as much time as US teachers do, no doubt.
You got to be kidding!
"Another reason to completely privatize public education"
Have to get rid of the Kennedy-Bush boondoggle first : )
April fools.
LOL!
No joke. The Arabs were allies and sympathizers of Nazi Germany during WWII. Keep in mind, both wanted to "Wipe Jews off the Face of the Earth."
Wow!
In 700 AD the world was flat.
Big Mo told me so!
So don't none of you Christians and Joooz tell me that the world is round!
Pres Yabbadabbadoo of Iran, has made it clear that he intends to wipe Israel off the map. He regularly launches into diatribes against the Jews and the US.
Hitler told the world what he intended to do about the "Jewish question". The world could not have cared less. Itwas the Jews that he was after, not them. So who cares?
Pres Imanutjob is doing no different. He is telling us that he intends to rev Israel. And the world, and we in the US, "urge" Israel to "give" more and slowly commit suicide.
Nothing much has changed since the writing of Mein Kampf. Jewish blood is still cheap. Just ask Jimmy Carter.
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