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.
Time to start firing liberal teachers unless they renounce liberalism.
thanks for the contact info. I'll be writing, that's for damn sure.
It began when Mohammed was born.
Domestic jihadists and the neo-Nazi crowd is rejoicing over this 'victory'.
Speak of the devil...
Britain needs to look across the Channel--that apeasement b.s. is not working well in France.
How about that the mosques drop what they're teaching 'cause I'm offended?
**"History is not a vehicle for promoting political correctness. Children must have access to knowledge of these controversial subjects, whether palatable or unpalatable."**
Then the mistakes will be repeated.
Pf cpirse, it's open season of "Jesus" too!
Oops! (Hate those typos!
Of course, it's open season of "Jesus" too!
The rewriting of history is going on all over the EU it seems...preparing the way for dhimmitude.
It found some teachers are reluctant to cover Darwin's theories for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Creationism.
Just to put things in perspective. The teachers have compromised themselves, it's just a matter now of deciding which boot they wish to lick.
My daughter had to refute the statement that the 19 hijackers and other terrorists are more couragous than our soldiers in Iraq.
Lessons in difficult topics were too often 'bland, simplistic and unproblematic' and bored pupils.
School isn't supposed to be a big party where students are feeling groovy. This is shameful and it is an embarrassment to have teachers that not only don't know what they are teaching about, but don't mind distorting history to please a certain group of people.
Stupidity.....the latest government entitlement.
ACtually it's worse. Muslims joiined SS units to wipe out Jews.
What this teaches is to avoid unpleasant confrontation at all costs. Pfft!
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