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April 02, 2007
UK Teachers Drop the Holocaust to Avoid Offending Muslims
Teachers drop the Holocaust to avoid offending Muslims
UK
Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.
It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.
There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades - where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem - because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.
The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using history 'as a vehicle for promoting political correctness'.
The study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, looked into 'emotive and controversial' history teaching in primary and secondary schools.
It found some teachers are dropping courses covering the Holocaust at the earliest opportunity over fears Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic and anti-Israel reactions in class.
The researchers gave the example of a secondary school in an unnamed northern city, which dropped the Holocaust as a subject for GCSE coursework.
The report said teachers feared confronting 'anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils'.
It added: "In another department, the Holocaust was taught despite anti-Semitic sentiment among some pupils.
"But the same department deliberately avoided teaching the Crusades at Key Stage 3 (11- to 14-year-olds) because their balanced treatment of the topic would have challenged what was taught in some local mosques."
A third school found itself 'strongly challenged by some Christian parents for their treatment of the Arab-Israeli conflict-and the history of the state of Israel that did not accord with the teachings of their denomination'.
The report concluded: "In particular settings, teachers of history are unwilling to challenge highly contentious or charged versions of history in which pupils are steeped at home, in their community or in a place of worship."
But Chris McGovern, history education adviser to the former Tory government, said:
"History is not a vehicle for promoting political correctness. Children must have access to knowledge of these controversial subjects, whether palatable or unpalatable."
The researchers also warned that a lack of subject knowledge among teachers - particularly at primary level - was leading to history being taught in a 'shallow way leading to routine and superficial learning'.
Lessons in difficult topics were too often 'bland, simplistic and unproblematic' and bored pupils.
Wild Thing's comment........
How awful, how horrible it is to see this kind of thing going on. Now we have schools that will not teach something just because someone MIGHT be offended. TUFF! No longer doe the truth matter, no longer does history have meaning to people like this. It makes me sick! I swear the world has turned upside down.
As the quote we all know says....those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Churchill would be disgusted. So many modern brits and modern British public officials would have fit in well with Chamberlain and his fellow appeasers. Stick a fork in the UK, its done and in 100 years will be another Islamic hellhole.
Posted by Wild Thing at April 2, 2007 12:47 AM
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At the rate they are appeasing their Islamofascist conquerors it won't take another hundred years. Europe has relied on NATO and the United Stated to protect them for over 60 years, while the UN has been aiding the enemies of freedom. Europe has suckled the teat of Socialism to the point they are incapable of protecting themselves as demonstrated by Tony Blair's bleating to the U.N. for sanctions. Witnessed by their EU partner, Germany's, refusal to appeal to their Iranian buddies for the release of the prisoners. Quite an alliance they have isn't it?
Posted by: Jack at April 2, 2007 04:36 AM
Surrender is becoming an art form in Europe. We have our own surrender artists here in America. A self appointed delegation of Congressional surrender artists just went to Syria. It seems that they want to outdo the former Iraqi Army and give up in face of underwhelming odds.
Posted by: TomR at April 2, 2007 05:14 AM
I thought the UK was our ally! So why are they being such pantywastes and preemptively giving in?
Churchill would be turning over in his grave!
Posted by: Lynn at April 2, 2007 06:24 AM
Jack, I can't believe how they or us as a country could appease these terrorists. Even common sense says not to trust them, not to give in to them.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 2, 2007 11:36 PM
Tom, isn't that something. Pelosi going to Syria, omg what a slap that was to our country. She is behaving like she is the President instead of Speaker of the House.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 2, 2007 11:37 PM
Lynn, he sure would be, we need more Churchill's and Reagans.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 2, 2007 11:38 PM
This is amazing. Here in the US, the ACLU swoops down on you for LOOKING at a cross on public school grounds, but here the British schools are showing such deference to Muslims that you'd think England was already taken over by Osama & Co. It'd be funny if it wasn't so blatantly ridiculous.
Posted by: Keith at April 3, 2007 11:59 PM
Wildthing, may I borrow the image at the top of this article? It needs to be shown all over.
Cheers
Rob
Posted by: RobC at April 6, 2007 05:17 AM
Hi Rob, yes you sure can.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 6, 2007 09:15 AM
