School sends students home for painting swastika
Twenty Kfar Saba high school students end annual school trip early for allegedly scribbling swastika, Hitler moustache on other kids' faces. Parents furious at decision
Kfar Saba high school students returned home early from their annual school trip on Monday after they painted a swastika on the forehead of one student and a mustache resembling Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's infamous mustache on another the previous night.
The school's management said the kids refused to confess to their actions prompting the school to send 20 students back to Kfar Saba.
The parents are furious at the decision and the fact that no one notified them about it. They also claim their children were not allowed to drink during the long ride back and that no pit-stops were made until the parents called to demand the school take care of the students.
One of the students involved said: "We got a little silly during the night and two seniors drew on another senior. They scribbled a swastika and a Hitler mustache on some other kids. One of the teachers remembered the faces of the kids walking around that night, but she didn't say anything.
"The following morning 20 senior
students were called to the bus. We were told we're suspected of these actions and that we must say who did it – and if not they'll get the police involved. Two of the students admitted that they scribbled the swastika, but the principal demanded to know who drew the mustache. So because no one confessed she decided to send us all home," the student explained.
He further added that one of the relatives of the student on whom the moustache was painted was a Holocaust survivor. "We didn't mean to hurt him or be anti-Semitic. It was just students fooling around on their last annual school trip, nothing more," he said.
The Education Ministry said in response: "The school's management finds this incident very serious. The teachers and inspector both decided to send back the students involved to their homes. On the way back a pit-stop was made, at the request of the students, so they could eat, despite the verbal abuse made by them. When the trip ends the school will hold a meeting to consider further disciplinarily action against the students."
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