[Idaho_Cowboy]

The assignment was for the student to imagine themselves as Nazis and write why they think Jews are evil. This is valid creative writing exercise for a history or “social studies” class. Only problem I can see is that she probably has not taught the inter-war period to the students well enough for the assignment; Germany went through a civil war against the communists after WWI.

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What good can come from having students imagine they are Nazi's and try to wrap their mind around their sick twisted thinking. I'm not venturing any conspiracy theories, but they are plenty of politicians today who wouldn't mind their constituents mastering this assignment a little too well. How does this kind of creative writing teach the students anything that helps them succeed in society? Would you like wager on weather the same children are ever assigned a creative writing assignment pretending they are colonial Americans in 1775?

On a more personal level, this kind of thinking is not healthy for young skulls full of mush. Remember Columbine, they got a little to caught up in what the Nazi's believed.

Should we just add “pretend you're a modern progressive democrat” to all of the other assignments kids receive pushing a liberal agenda?

[DManA]

I think this teacher is more nihilistic than anything. If we teach the Holocaust then we have to teach the other point of view. It may be evil from a Jewish perspective but it makes perfect sense through Nazi eyes. So you see there is no truth, no reality, in the end it’s all just stories and feeling.

[Little Ray]

I frequently try to imagine I’m a modern progressive Democrat to see where they are coming from and why they believe the things they do. Mostly I fail. There is almost no common ground left.

I also try to understand the bad guys in shows and novels. I read “The Turner Diaries” just to try to understand what idiocy the author believed; to call it absurd would be flattery. The downside is, in some shows, I find I like the villains better... The theme of “Diversity is our Strength” in Babylon 5 still brings a snort of laughter.

If any case, if it is an English assignment, and they haven’t studied inter-war Germany, then they can’t do the assignment properly. All they’d be doing would be venting ignorance and hate. Not much of a writing assignment.

[BCW]

You wrote my thoughts exactly - I think it was a pre-assignment to start training young and impressionable minds...the facists/socialists progressives are really coming out of the wood work lately with bold visions!