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March 31, 2006
School Reenacts Holocaust
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
Posted by Van Helsing at March 31, 2006 12:57 PM
Comments
Couldn't the morons make two triangles to create the 6 pointed star of david? I guess that is too complex to do now that our schools have been so stupified.
Posted by: Andre at March 31, 2006 2:08 PM
Make those kids read Art Spiegelman's Maus and Maus II graphic novels.
Posted by: anna at March 31, 2006 4:43 PM
Problem with reading and math is, it actually makes people think instead of acting like touchy feely morons with outbreaks of semi-psychotic emotional outbursts when certain pavlovian phrases are used. No dictator really wants their population to be too educated or else they might get the wrong ideas thinking for themselves, this kind of endoctrination is a dictators wet dream come true. Dumbing down and making emotional wrecks out of children before they're in their teen years.
Posted by: Andre at April 1, 2006 10:07 AM
This is a good lesson to teach kids but it is very difficult to pull off. It reminds me of the Angry Eye expreiments where students preformance or lack of it is supposed to be based on eye color.
If this lesson is taught right it can imbue children with the knowledge of what it is like to be discriminated against.
I don't think that this experiment was pulled off very well though. Maybe these teachers need to learn a little more themselves before trying a technique they are not sure of.
Posted by: Reed Harding at April 1, 2006 2:31 PM
