| A Government backed study funded by the | | | | causing us to rearrange an entire history curriculum |
| Department for Education and Skills located in the | | | | because of the fear of fallout. Parents concerned |
| United Kingdom has revealed that schools are | | | | about their own agenda and special interest groups |
| dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid | | | | use bullying as a means of instilling fear and intimidation |
| offending Muslim pupils. The study found that some | | | | to coerce school superintendents and board members |
| teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of | | | | to meet their unreasonable demands. The result: |
| upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust | | | | schools and teachers, in particular are buckling even |
| denial. Can schools be that ignorant? The horrific | | | | though this is not good for the population at large. In |
| events that occurred during World War II that involved | | | | many instances the squeaky wheel gets the grease. I |
| the extermination of more than six million Jews cannot | | | | worked as administrator in one school district that |
| be denied. An entire race of people was bullied by an | | | | provided a room to all Muslim students so that they |
| absolute megalomaniac, Adolph Hitler, who attempted | | | | could pray everyday for 30 days during the Muslim |
| to wipe out the entire Jewish race/religion. The events | | | | holiday Ramadan. In the same district teachers of the |
| started with the denial of Jews' basic rights, led to | | | | Jewish faith requested time off to celebrate Rosh |
| segregated housing in ghettos, destruction of their | | | | Hashanah. Their request was denied and they were |
| businesses, and ultimately being sent to concentration | | | | docked pay when they decided to take the day off. In |
| camps where they were starved, tortured, used as | | | | the very same district a Christian teacher was given a |
| guinea pigs in cruel medical experiments, worked to | | | | written reprimand for reading his bible during his lunch |
| death, and gassed to death. Based on this recent | | | | hour. He was told he violated separation of church and |
| study, the Jewish population is in imminent danger of | | | | state. But, provision of a room to pray during school |
| being bullied again, first through the denial that the | | | | hours is also a violation of the same constitutional |
| Holocaust never happened, and then by allowing | | | | amendment. The district chose to take the path of |
| Muslims to bully school systems into submission and | | | | least resistance for fear of the bullying that might |
| remove these historical events from their curriculum. | | | | occur had they stood up and enforced the first |
| The bullying of a system is not uncommon, and school | | | | amendment. What group has the power to decide if |
| systems fall prey to this type of tyranny all the time. | | | | certain events in history ever occurred? No group |
| When I was a school administrator, I remember one | | | | should. But, in this instance Muslims are using bullying |
| parent complaining that her son could not wear a hat in | | | | tactics to instill fear and intimidation into schools and |
| school. The school district actually gave in and | | | | society in order to eliminate facts that they don't like. |
| changed written school policy. The new policy allowed | | | | History happened; you can't change it because you're |
| the students to wear hats in school, but not in | | | | offended by it. Hitler used his power in his almost |
| classrooms. This was an instance where bullying | | | | successful attempt to wipe the race of the Jewish |
| changed an entire district policy that had worked for | | | | people off the face of the earth. The world pretty |
| everyone else, but not for them. In this instance Muslim | | | | much stood by during the Holocaust and watched |
| students/parents are "offended" by teachings about | | | | while this was happening. It is inevitable that history will |
| the Holocaust. They are bullying school systems, and | | | | repeat itself if we allow ourselves to be bullied into |
| often individual teachers into not including the Holocaust | | | | submission by Muslims into not teaching a vital part of |
| in their curriculum. A fifth grade teacher in New Jersey | | | | history, the Holocaust. This bullying must stop. We |
| recently told me about an account of just this. When | | | | cannot change history because a group of people is |
| she was beginning her unit on the Holocaust last year | | | | offended by it. |
| she was shocked when one of her students, who | | | | Jim Burns is one of America's most inspirational |
| was Islamic and from Pakistan said, "Why are we | | | | educational speakers. His humorous and insightful |
| learning about the Holocaust? My mom told me it's a | | | | presentations touch and influence his audiences in an |
| big lie, and it never happened." What's actually | | | | unforgettable way. Best known for his presentations |
| happening here is that we are being bullied into | | | | on Bullying, Motivating Disaffected Students, Diffusing |
| submission by a group of people, and that bullying is | | | | Power Struggles, Character Education. |