NOTE: THIS IS COMMON CORE CRAP!
Public School Assignment: Think Like a Nazi
December 11, 2013 by NewsEditor 8 Comments
Students
in some Albany High School English classes were asked this week as part
of a persuasive writing assignment to make an abhorrent argument: “You
must argue that Jews are evil, and use solid rationale from government
propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich!”
Students
were asked to watch and read Nazi propaganda, then pretend their
teacher was a Nazi government official who needed to be convinced of
their loyalty. In five paragraphs, they were required to prove that Jews
were the source of Germany's problems.
The
exercise was intended to challenge students to formulate a persuasive
argument and was given to three classes, Albany Superintendent
Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard said. She said the assignment should have
been worded differently.
"I
would apologize to our families," she said. "I don't believe there was
malice or intent to cause any insensitivities to our families of Jewish
faith."
One-third of the students refused to complete the assignment, she said.
One-third of the students refused to complete the assignment, she said.
Vanden Wyngaard said the exercise reflects the type of writing expected of students under the new Common Core curriculum,
the tough new academic standards that require more sophisticated
writing. Such assignments attempt to connect English with history and
social studies.
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