Published: 2013 April 17 13:32:00 (4602 Views)

An English teacher in the Albany school district, US, asked 10th grade students to write an assignment on why the Jews should be blamed for the issues of Nazi Germany.

Earlier reported by the Times Union, the assignment stated, "You must argue that Jews are evil, and use solid rationale from government propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich!"

According to ABC News, the superintendent, Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard, was discussing with administrators what provisions should be taken against this Albany high school teacher.

The severity of the penalties can range from a letter of counsel to complete expulsion from the school.

"This assignment for some of our students at Albany High School was completely unacceptable. It displayed a level of insensitivity that we absolutely will not tolerate in our school community," Wyngaard stated Friday afternoon.

Another statement was added by Shelly Shapiro, director of the Holocaust Survivors & Friends Education Center later that afternoon saying, "After this unfortunate lesson we know that the Albany School District will rededicate themselves to teaching about how prejudice led to genocide and to help their students build a better community."

Although the administrators did say that the teacher meant no harm by the assignment, and it was in fact meant to teach a lesson of how limited the evidence for the genocide actually was, it should have been put in a different and more blatant context of what the idea of the assignment was.

Earlier this year, a similar assignment was given in which a Manhattan math teacher gave his class a math problem asking his fourth-grade class how many daily whippings a slave received.


- ABC News

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