Holocaust Hoax Essay 'Horribly Inappropriate'

Holocaust Hoax Essay 'Horribly Inappropriate'
A California school district had asked students to consider whether the Holocaust was an "actual event" or "a political scheme".

California school officials have said an assignment asking students to write an essay on whether they believe the Holocaust really happened was "horribly inappropriate".

The Rialto Unified School District made headlines when it gave eighth-grade students a critical-thinking writing assignment on whether the Holocaust was an actual event or "merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain".

The assignment drew the immediate condemnation of Jewish groups, tolerance organisations and community leaders.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a statement that it was "appalled by this grotesque 'assignment'".

The California-based group called the Nazi Holocaust, in which six million Jews were killed, "the most documented monstrous crime in history".

The district had already withdrawn the assignment and called it an error.

But at a packed public meeting, the Rialto Unified School Board went further, taking "full responsibility".

Board president Joanne Gilberts said that a lack of internal checks had turned the project into a "horribly inappropriate assignment".

The board said it was "deeply sorry" for the mistake.

Ms Gilbert said eighth graders will undergo sensitivity training at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, and several other policy changes will be implemented.

It was not clear if any educator would be disciplined.

http://news.sky.com/story/1257643/holocaust-hoax-essay-horribly-inappropriate

Not clear if he would be disciplined? WTF!

Why are the eighth graders having to undergo "sensitivity training"?

Who thought up that ghastly phrase anyway?

Sassy wrote:

Ms Gilbert said eighth graders will undergo sensitivity training at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles

Delicious indoctrination.

Quite an interesting assignment really. It would teach them to find out stuff for themselves. I know someone on a forum who says it didn't happen - well he says there's no evidence that people were gassed anyway.

While I think it definitely happened I think it has/is been exaggerated, the Number of Jews Keeps going up. I am Sure it was 4 million 10 years ago      

And Considering as many Gypsies were killed as Jews, are we saying 12 million were killed total? plus the homosexuals? the number seem to be getting awful big for a nation of under 70 million people at the time.