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March 31, 2006

School Reenacts Holocaust

Posted by Dave Blount at March 31, 2006 12:57 PM

Eighth graders at a middle school in Florida whose last names begin with L through Z were in for a big surprise when they were forced to wear yellow stars for Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Students without stars upon thars were privileged, but the star-bellied students had to stand at the back of the classroom instead of sitting down.

One poor kid was forced to go to the back of the lunch line four times by an administrator. When his father asked why he had come home crying, he explained, "Daddy, I was a Jew today."

The idea of this unannounced experiment was to introduce "a tolerance education component." But when asked what he learned from the educational experiment, the boy said, "Daddy, the only thing I found out today is I don't want to be Jewish."

Maybe middle-school educators should focus on reading and math.

Hat tip: William