Holocaust lesson gets out of hand At The Lennox School In Texas
 
Students in Texas said a three-week lesson that assigned students the roles of Germans and Jews during the Holocaust got out of hand when some students took the role-playing too far and the "Germans" spat and hit the "Jews".

The exercise in the Ninth Grade Academy school's Advanced Placement Geography course Waxahachie, 50 kilometres south of Dallas, was meant to bring home the reality of intolerance during the Holocaust, school officials said.

Teachers made some students pose as Jews, (two baths a week, not flushing toilets, etc) while the other group played the attractive German Aryans.  The Jewish students were also the last to eat lunch and had to pick up everyone's garbage, the station reported.

 

Students Get Some Real Insight

Teachers realized the exercise backfired when students became conscious of the Jewish sterotype, and could understand why the Germans found Jews distatseful."They would spit on them. They would push them down the stairs. They would be really rude," student Tiffany Zimmerman said. "I think it was too rough and over the edge."

The point of the class was "learning about the problems of intolerance and the problems of discrimination and helping kids understand what some people went through to change the world," Principal John Aune told a Dallas-Fort Worth television station.

Aune said this was the fifth year the school has run the Holocaust exercise.  full article

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