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UK: Kids 'removed from families' in Holocaust 'game'
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Published: 11.03.10, 07:28
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1. teaching
colin   (03.11.10)
So the parents do not like or want the truth to be known by thier children of how the Brittish sent children to thier deaths helping the nazis??? Let the children judge for themselves. Where were the parents to the children of the holocast--running to complain to the council of how bad it was ????Let this teacher be rewarded for tutering the truth
2. she took THE WAVE experiment
ghostq   (03.11.10)
and decide to make her own, but she did it the wrong way to the wrrong age.
3. Too Young
Ali ,   Akko, Israel   (03.11.10)
I agree that this method seems like a good way to teach the people so that they are able to understand the experiences of the Holocaust. HOWEVER these children were far too young to comprehend the what the activities were leading to, and of course, as any child of 11 would do, got scared. Not the correct age group for this at all.
4. #3
(03.11.10)
11 years old is not the correct age group to teach the holocaust???? sir, jewish children of 0-16 plus died in the gas chambers and they were taught about hate and death without regard to their age or readiness. a child of 11 is most surely ready to learn about the holocaust when done in a productive way. but LEARN THEY MUST! especially in europe.
5. You're all a bunch of savages
Takan ,   Elat   (03.11.10)
This is like showing porn to kids so they can understand where babies come from. Why not give them a beating once in a while just to toughen them up. We're talking about little children here, with not much knowledge nor understanding of the wickedness the adults are often capable of. Teaching is one thing and the holocaust should be taught, even at a young age but teachers should be very careful when treating with such delicate subjects and what has been done here is close to criminal, in my point of view.
6. #1 Parents not want this lesson? is that your interpetation?
Jason ,   London   (03.11.10)
I think the parents just are shocked that their kids were so scared. Please do not assume there was a bunch of parents hiding the facts from their kids or its some conspiracy to hide facts. On the positive side, this kids will not forget that lesson!
7. UK takes Holocaust education very seriously. see the link.
Molly ,   Jerusalem   (03.11.10)
http://www.het.org.uk/content.php?page_id=263 The teacher probably went a bit too far, for their age. I remember my class in England at a non Jewish school on the Holocaust back when I was a young girl, the teacher did not scare us like this, but it did achieve the same affect with the pupils, tears, fear, realisation of what human hatred is capable of. And reminder of our history.
8. To #3: Never to young to learn about the horrors of man!
David ,   Karmiel, Israel   (03.11.10)
I was about 4 or 5 years old when I was told the reason that we don't buy German goods! I was 13 years old when, as a tourist, I saw the blue and white Jars of Ashes, the human soap and the lampshades made out of human skin on Mount Zion! No, they are not to young and I am sure they see plenty of terrible things on the news. If the teacher was teaching about the Rwandan Genocide or the starving and mutilated millions in Somalia there would have been no complaint. Let's face it, its just no politically correct to teach children about Jewish suffering, particularly in Islamic Britain!
9. re #7
Moshe ,   Lanarkshire,UK   (03.11.10)
Sadly the UK does NOT take it seriously and this is one exceptional example. At my local school in, also in Lanarkshire, they removed all reference so as not to offend the Moslem children or the Moslem teacher (who teaches in a full Burkah and men may not enter her classroom). My child's work on the holocaust was just ignored because that was not the 'piece of WW2' they were interested in.
10. 9. Moshe. I am a teacher in the UK, and I know what we teach
Molly ,   Jerusalem   (03.11.10)
6 months of my life teaching in Bristol and the rest of year in JSLM. Therefore, a sweeping statement such as yours just helps mislead the loons who further feed off the blog and talkback propanganda. If UK teaches holocaust, its done incorrectly, if it doesnt teach at all, its wrong, if it doesnt cover it enough, its wrong. Let us tach whatwe teach and let us do it as best as we can to educate the next generations.
11. Parents are destroying their children by over protection ..
Lee ,   Manchester UK   (03.11.10)
i admire the teacher and her motive. but sadly the people of this island are too selfish to ever think about the Holocaust and the hell that Jewish children lived through. These children will have been taken home to fish and chips and deep fried mars bars as consolation for their 'ordeal'. I bet the millions of Jewish children would have jumped at such a chance unhealthy food or not. the future of Europe isn't looking good folks.
12. they were too young
Yehuda ,   United States   (03.16.10)
While I agree that her method was in some ways effective, I don't think she should have done it to young children. If these were stubborn High School students who didn't care about the Shoah, then I would commend her, but these are young kids who, from how the article sounds, are too young to understand genocide. I think she should be informed of this and move on, I don't think legal action or firing should occur, but I also don't think they should let this go either.
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