Assignment Asking Students Whether The Holocaust Was Real Results In Disturbing Answers And Grades

IJReview ^ | Caroline Schaeffer

[Morgana]

Approximately 2,000 eighth graders in the Rialto, CA, school district received a shocking in-class essay assignment in May, which led to an outcry from the community and a public apology from district administrators.

The assignment asked students to discuss whether the Holocaust “was an actual event in history,” or whether it was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain,” the San Bernadino Sun reports.

After the justified outrage ensued, district administrators insisted that not one single student had argued against the reality of the Holocaust.

But the San Bernadino Sun, after sifting through hundreds of student essays, have already found at least 50 which show that that was a lie.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The assignment asked students to discuss whether the Holocaust “was an actual event in history,” or whether it was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain...”

Sort of like anthropogenic global-warming/climate change?

Sounds like the Alinskyites are projecting again.

[skinkinthegrass]

eight graders...talk about educational malfeasance.
shouldn't this course-work be in 9th / 10th grade?

[Sans-Culotte]

It was probably a useful assignment to see how the students’ minds would filter out propaganda from fact. I have no problem with the assignment. However, all the kids who felt it was a hoax, or exaggerated, should have received F’s for demonstrating a half-assed approach to research. The “teachable moment” would have been explaining to the idiots the error of their ways.

[SMARTY]

“...or whether it was “merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain...”

Hmmm...Like the ‘children’ coming up here now.

[bigbob]

If asked to define “holocaust” I suspect more than half would say it’s a computer-generated 3D effect.

[rfreedom4u]

Imagine the stink if they had asked “Did slavery actually exist in the US?”

[BitWielder1]

The Holocaust is probably the best documented atrocity in human history, by Jews, Germany and Allied forces alike.
Very hard to argue it's all fake.

[rockrr]

50 little leftist aspiring 3rd Reicher’s ;’)

[17th Miss Regt]

district administrators insisted that not one single student had argued against the reality of the Holocaust

Not one single student, but rather 50 or more of them. So technically the adminstrators are correct. The administrators are also weasels of the worst sort.

[GeronL]

district administrators insisted that not one single student had argued against the reality of the Holocaust.

Leftists never tell the truth

[GeronL]

The Germans kept good records.

[Misterioso]

Those of us who live in San Bernardino resent its being misspelled.

[a fool in paradise]

You are entitled to your own opinion, but you aren’t entitled to your own set of facts. - Ronald Reagan

[Focault's Pendulum]

The Germans kept good records.

Yeah. Six million died of heart failure.

[GeronL]

lol

doesn’t everyone die that way?