This, ladies and gentlemen, is the result of the Common Core Curriculum. It Was All A Ruse: California 8th Graders Believe the Holocaust was a Hoax Loyal members of LU Nation will remember a post by Howard Portnoy in May 2014, outlining an outrageous classroom assignment given to 8th graders in Rialto, California: Here is the assignment, which was handed out in April: “[S]ome people claim the Holocaust is not an actual historical event, but instead is a propaganda tool that was used for political and monetary gain. Based upon your research on this issue, write an argumentative essay, utilizing cited textual evidence, in which you explain whether or not you believe the Holocaust was an actual event in history, or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain. Remember to address counterclaims (rebuttals) to your stated claim.” But in a dénouement that should surprise no one, we learn today from the Los Angeles Daily News (LADN) that dozens of the 8th graders who turned in this assignment ended up concluding that the Holocaust was a hoax. Not only did they doubt it: they absorbed, from an anti-Semitic Holocaust-denial website – whose material was handed out to help them complete the assignment – a set of anti-Semitic tropes, against which their juvenile minds presumably had no defenses of skepticism or principle. Read more here: girlsjustwannahaveguns/2014/07/ruse-california-8th-graders-believe-holocaust-hoax/
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 04:25:25 +0000
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