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2014-05-07 Home Front: Culture Wars

California school assignment; was Holocaust a hoax ?

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Yea, well, it is Obamarika.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-05-07 03:20|| 2014-05-07 03:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Interim Superintendent Mohammad Z. Islam was set to talk with administrators to "assure that any references to the holocaust 'not occurring' will be stricken on any current or future Argumentative Research assignments

In fact, there'll not be any discussion or acknowledgement of the Holocaust at all! There, that fixes it.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-05-07 05:09|| 2014-05-07 05:09|| Front Page Top

#3 If the goal was to analyze propaganda then any issue of NY times would of sufficed for examination.

Posted by Airandee 2014-05-07 05:37|| 2014-05-07 05:37|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm not sure I see the problem. At least not unless the essays were to be graded on the basis that the Holocaust WAS a hoax. It is not clear to me the significance of the 'three sources provided for use' - those clearly bias the assignment, especially if they are the only sources allowed, but even just as the only suggested options.
Still, I do like the concept of asking students to question generally-accepted truth - how about global warming?

Posted by Glenmore 2014-05-07 05:52|| 2014-05-07 05:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Why not two assignments?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-05-07 06:23|| 2014-05-07 06:23|| Front Page Top

#6 I substitute teach in middle school. This assignment is totally inappropriate for 8th grade. The kids that age are not mature enough to consider this kind of monstrosity in anything like an intelligent, thoughtful, moral manner.

This is pure propaganda from the get go. This is set up so the "teacher" can paint it as Juice are evil and go on from there.

Posted by AlanC 2014-05-07 07:45|| 2014-05-07 07:45|| Front Page Top

#7 I substitute teach in middle school.

You poor SOB, have 'ye a crudgel?

ProTip: Hide a tire-iron in your umbrella. Or if that won't get past the metal detectors a Pappy 2-iron of discipline. There are some that will take an edge.

Posted by Shipman 2014-05-07 08:29|| 2014-05-07 08:29|| Front Page Top

#8 To Whom It May Concern at the Rial School District:

My son Johann Josef Mengele will not be able to turn in his paper on "Was the Holocaust a Hoax" because his two adorable German Shepards, Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler,(die dumme Hunde)took exception to the actual paper, tore it to shreds and ate it. (Sie sind jetzt Papier scheissen.)

Please be assured that Johann can recite the contents of the paper by heart.(ausvendig) Please have Johann recite it to you, if it will help him pass his class. He is a very smart boy. (Kein Zweifel, er ist klüger als du)

Please be aware that Johann will be leaving school early this year as we will be traveling to Argentina, to visit his grandmother Marta Mengela, widow of our dear departed Joseph.

Sincerely Jules Mengela

Posted by Omusons Lover of the Hemps8496 2014-05-07 09:33|| 2014-05-07 09:33|| Front Page Top

#9 You think they could have assigned the topic - Man Made Global Warming a Hoax? Nah.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2014-05-07 11:25|| 2014-05-07 11:25|| Front Page Top

#10 You poor SOB, have 'ye a crudgel?

Ship, I've found that a cattle-prod works better. ;^)

In reality speaking German loudly tends to work pretty well too. A forceful "Setzen Sie sich, bitte" or "Ruhe bitte" works wonders.

Seriously though, I like it. Now I'm not teaching in an urban environment, rather, an upper/upper- middle class system (two middle & high) schools.

I like 6th & 7th grade best. You can deal with them on mostly an adult level AND they actually listen. The young uns can't handle that and when they get to high school you have all the impact of a piece of furniture. 8th graders start developing their high school attitudes by December and it's down hill from there.

Posted by AlanC 2014-05-07 11:30|| 2014-05-07 11:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Interim Superintendent Mohammad Z. Islam...

Hmmmm. What does the Z stand for?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-05-07 11:37|| 2014-05-07 11:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Z = Zombie

Posted by Omusons Lover of the Hemps8496 2014-05-07 11:42|| 2014-05-07 11:42|| Front Page Top

#13 The really stupid thing about this assignment is NO crime in history has been as well documented as the Holocaust BY THE MURDERERS THEMSELVES.

The Nazis kept 13 files in different locations on EVERY PERSON who entered the concentration camp system. Literally 100s of tons of incriminating documents were recovered from the 3rd reich. It took scholars more than 60 years to work their way through the data.

If you are going to argue the holocaust is a hoax, you have to argue someone forged these tens of millions of documents and tons of artifacts. You also have to ask how they did this (and more important why???)

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2014-05-07 12:30|| 2014-05-07 12:30|| Front Page Top

#14 I read elsewhere that this was part of a Common Core assignment.

Posted by warthogswife 2014-05-07 13:55|| 2014-05-07 13:55|| Front Page Top

#15 The first step in removing something from history is to discredit that it ever happened. Sow the seed of doubt. Then eliminate it from view, nothing to see here. This is so typical. So lets do one that Pearl harbor was faked, did it ever happen? Same with MLK killing, he faked it and is now in hiding or some secret jail. But to call into question one of the greatest genocides in the history of modern man is absurd and takes the contempt for Jews to a new level. Let look at slavery. Write a paper that says they were better off being slave in the US. Same deal, some things are not open for this type of crap.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-05-07 15:48|| 2014-05-07 15:48|| Front Page Top

#16 Don't forget 9/11. You know, that was all Bush's fault.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-05-07 16:19|| 2014-05-07 16:19|| Front Page Top

#17 Interim Superintendent Mohammad Z. Islam.

They're right in there, doing their thing, aren't they. Caught him out this time, but how much is missed?

And Besoeker's got it right, solve it by not mentioning the Holocaust at all, that's the only fair solution.

Posted by KBK 2014-05-07 20:28|| 2014-05-07 20:28|| Front Page Top

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