POLITICALLY CORRECT BRAINWASHING
Holocaust® 'specialists' now mandatory in
British schools
Every school to
get Holocaust® specialist under anti-racism initiative
By JOANNA SUGDEN
The Times,
London Friday, 7 November 2008
LONDON —
Every secondary school is to get a Holocaust® specialistto
ensure that the subject is taught comprehensively and sensitively.
One teacher from every
school will be offered a place on a Holocaust® education training
course to combat racism and intolerance.
One in ten of those who take
the course will also be able to take a master’s degree module in
Holocaust® education, as part of a £1.5 million scheme run by
the Institute of Education.
Teachers will discuss parts
of the subject that they find difficult to teach and work on lesson
plans with experts on how to broach the issue.
Concerns about increasing
'anti-Semitism'
Stuart Foster, director of
the project, said: “There are increasing concerns in society about
intolerance and racism. The BNP is coming to the forefront, and there’s
increased anti-Semitism.”
The initiative is designed to
maintain awareness of the Nazi’s systematic massacre of the Jews during
the Second World War as survivor numbers dwindle, Times Educational
Supplement reports.
The project will launch on
Sunday, the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht — the night in 1938 when 91
Jews were killed [following a number of anti-German incidents
and the brutal assassination of the German ambassador to Paris by a young Jew], 30,000 were arrested
and 191 synagogues were destroyed marking the beginning of the Nazi’s
genocide of the Jewish people.
Teachers to be tested
Ruth-Anne Lenga, education
consultant at the Jewish Museum, said that the Holocaust® was often
covered very briefly by schools despite being on the school curriculum.
“It could be the emotiveness of the subject worries teachers, or it
raises difficult moral challenges and questions. We want to ensure
there’s support.”
The project will coincide with a
survey testing teachers’ knowledge of the subject and their teaching
methods. It will ask teachers for their definition of “Holocaust®”
and whether they think teaching
children about it is important.
The scheme is part of a wider
Holocaust® education project funded by the Government and the Pears
Foundation charity. It is supported by the Holocaust Education Trust,
which this year received £1.5 million from the Government to send
two sixth-formers from every school to Auschwitz.
