Student's project: prove malice of the Jews

High school students in Albany, the state capital of New York, were asked by their teacher to write a fictional about the Nazi era, which aims to convince Jews are evil and are the source of Germany's troubles."

Newspaper the Times Union local reported that students in three classes were asked to watch Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitic literature, to help them draft five paragraphs apposite following instructions. "You pretend I am a clerk in the Nazi government," the teacher wrote, "and convince me your loyalty to the regime, by writing a composition proving the wickedness of the Jews."

About a third of the students in the class refused to complete the task, and their parents complained to the school administration and educational authorities in the city. Director of Education district which the school belongs to, Wenden Weingrad, apologized to parents, but pointed out that behind the mission "was not any malice or lack of sensitivity to the Jewish families of our students."

Weingrad told the Times Union that the task was given to students as part of a program nicknamed the "common core" designed to create uniform standards and improve the level of studies throughout the United States.

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!