I had to check the date twice to make sure this article in the Daily Mail wasn’t a bad April Fool’s joke. Unfortunately it isn’t:
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.
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“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.”
This is disgraceful! A lot of kids have a bad enough education as it is, we really do not have to make it any worse by trying not to offend some religious nuts’ sensibilities. Let’s face it, these ‘un-believers’ in history are a minority who should be ignored. More so, their offspring especially needs better educated.
And it’s not just some muslims who are offended:
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.”
It did not accord with the teachings of their denomination?! What next? Evolution is just a theory? The earth is flat? Idiots!
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