Posted on 04/12/2013 5:50:55 PM PDT by Nachum
Students in some Albany High School English classes were asked to participate in the unthinkable this week as part of a persuasive writing assignment. The objective? Prove why Jews are evil and convince the teacher of their loyalty to the Third Reich in five paragraphs or less.
“You must argue that Jews are evil, and use solid rationale from government propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich!” read the description on the assignment, which the school superintendent said reflects the kind of sophisticated writing expected of students under the new Common Core standards and was meant to hone students’ persuasive argument abilities.
The TimesUnion reports that students were asked to digest Nazi propaganda material, then imagine that their teacher was an SS officer who needed to be persuaded of their loyalty by arguing that Jews are the root of all the world’s ills.
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i would instead have argued why teachers’ unions are evil in at least five paragraphs.
It wasn’t Illinois Nazis though right?
I hate Illinois Nazis.
In a sane world, the school board would call the teacher in front of them and tell him to pretend he was Julius Streicher at Nuremburg and explain in five paragraphs or less why he should not have his neck stretched.
Is this exercise purely theoretical, or there is some practical side of it as well?
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