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Old 04.02.2007, 02:50 AM   #1
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Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims
By LAURA CLARK

Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.
It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.[..]

Unbelievable! What is that? A belated April fool hoax? But the article says 2nd April 2007.. is it really that bad already?
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Old 04.02.2007, 02:56 AM   #2
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I'm sorry to say this is probably true. Our nation's whole constitution seems to be being re-written so as not to offend anyone.
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Old 04.02.2007, 03:15 AM   #3
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I think that is stupid to not offend people. You just have too at some points.
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Old 04.02.2007, 03:20 AM   #4
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I never learned about The Holocaust in school. Or was i just not paying attention?
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Old 04.02.2007, 03:38 AM   #5
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Trying to teach history in such a way as to not offend anyone is to forget that some things in history are actually offensive.
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Old 04.02.2007, 03:48 AM   #6
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I'm surprised that we haven't yet seen the usual press outcry about some local council saying that Easter must be called "Spring Festival" so as not to upset non-Christians.
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Old 04.02.2007, 04:09 AM   #7
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I'm surprised that we haven't yet seen the usual press outcry about some local council saying that Easter must be called "Spring Festival" so as not to upset non-Christians.

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Old 04.02.2007, 04:46 AM   #8
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Old 04.02.2007, 05:58 AM   #9
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our holocaust lessons at school seemed to consist of watching shindlers list. Still it's really stupid to stop teaching it in schools if this is true.
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Old 04.02.2007, 06:02 AM   #10
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so surely this going to offend jews then?
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Old 04.02.2007, 06:06 AM   #11
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But there are less of them than there are of... whoever it is that might be offended by teaching about the holocaust.

I've just realised, this article is from the Daily Mail. It is, therefore, with apologies to anyone who may be offended by this opinion, a load of right-wing shite.
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Old 04.02.2007, 06:10 AM   #12
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yeah, i noticed that so i looked it up on the guardian website, here's their more level headed version:

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Schools drop Holocaust lessons



Jeevan Vasagar
Monday April 2, 2007
The Guardian


Schools have avoided teaching the Holocaust and the Crusades in history lessons because they are concerned about causing offence to Muslim pupils or challenging "charged" versions of history which children have been taught at home, government research has found.A report for the Department for Education and Skills found that a history department in a northern city had avoided selecting the Holocaust as a GCSE topic for fear of confronting "anti-semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial" among some Muslim pupils.
Another school decided to teach the Holocaust despite anti-semitic sentiment among students, but avoided the Crusades as "their balanced treatment of the topic would have directly challenged what was taught in some local mosques".
The report, Teaching Emotive and Controversial History, also revealed that one school was challenged by Christian parents for teachers' treatment of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
A DfES spokesman said: "It's up to schools to make a judgment on non-compulsory parts of the national curriculum. It is a broad framework and there is scope for schools to make their own decisions."
Teaching of the Holocaust is expected to become compulsory under the new national curriculum from next year.
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Old 04.02.2007, 06:12 AM   #13
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Taking a History class in the UK is the most depressing thing ever.

Up to year 9 all I learned about was The Blitz, The Holocaust, and the horrible details about how gas peeled people's faces off and made them vomit their own lungs up. For some reason I ended up taking a History GCSE, and it's even more depressing! We started off with World War One- trench foot, bodies being eaten by rats, starvation. Then we moved on to The Rise of Hitler- need I say more? THEN we had to learn about Vietnam, and how napalm burns young children. THEN of course, we move on to the USSR 1945-1990. It is the most depressing country on earth.

In short, I'm glad something has been removed from this depress-o-rama, but this seems to have been taken out for all the wrong reasons. I think after what muslims did to the London Transportation System we shouldn't really bother about pissing them off anymore.
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Old 04.02.2007, 06:15 AM   #14
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Taking a History class in the UK is the most depressing thing ever.

Up to year 9 all I learned about was The Blitz, The Holocaust, and the horrible details about how gas peeled people's faces off and made them vomit their own lungs up. For some reason I ended up taking a History GCSE, and it's even more depressing! We started off with World War One- trench foot, bodies being eaten by rats, starvation. Then we moved on to The Rise of Hitler- need I say more? THEN we had to learn about Vietnam, and how napalm burns young children. THEN of course, we move on to the USSR 1945-1990. It is the most depressing country on earth.

In short, I'm glad something has been removed from this depress-o-rama, but this seems to have been taken out for all the wrong reasons. I think after what muslims did to the London Transportation System we shouldn't really bother about pissing them off anymore.


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Old 04.02.2007, 06:19 AM   #15
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Things will get worse, I have no doubt about that. It won't be long before the government is saying sorry to Moslems for the hurt caused by the Crusades.
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Old 04.02.2007, 06:21 AM   #16
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Taking a History class in the UK is the most depressing thing ever.

Up to year 9 all I learned about was The Blitz, The Holocaust, and the horrible details about how gas peeled people's faces off and made them vomit their own lungs up. For some reason I ended up taking a History GCSE, and it's even more depressing! We started off with World War One- trench foot, bodies being eaten by rats, starvation. Then we moved on to The Rise of Hitler- need I say more? THEN we had to learn about Vietnam, and how napalm burns young children. THEN of course, we move on to the USSR 1945-1990. It is the most depressing country on earth.

In short, I'm glad something has been removed from this depress-o-rama, but this seems to have been taken out for all the wrong reasons. I think after what muslims did to the London Transportation System we shouldn't really bother about pissing them off anymore.

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Old 04.02.2007, 06:25 AM   #17
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From what I understand from my niece, who is fourteen, history before the twentieth century just does not get taught in schools now. The point of history lessons today seems not to be to teach how the world became what it is today but to teach that nothing good comes of being nasty to one another. Hence it's all the dark stuff that gets taught.
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Old 04.02.2007, 06:30 AM   #18
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british schools history lessons are pretty bad. many germans i talked too knew more about british history than i.
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Old 04.02.2007, 07:22 AM   #19
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when i did history GCSE i don't think we learned any british history, other than the two world wars.
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