Middle School holds Holocaust reenactment; hilarity ensues
A Middle School in Apopka, Florida performed an exercise labelling students as Jews by adorning eighth graders whose last names began with L-Z with yellow Stars of David, forcing them to go to the back of the lunch line, and prohibiting them from using certain water fountains. On the positive side, their math achievement scores went up, their hair turned curly, and the female students all expressed a desire to attend the University of Maryland.
The purpose of the reenactment was to teach the students about the early days of the Holocaust, but, according to one parent, "I tried to talk to my son and I asked all of these questions and the only thing he said is, 'Daddy, the only thing I found out today is I don't want to be Jewish." Join the club, kid. The school also planned on reenacting the final days of the Holocaust, but that would have been horribly illegal.
The school will also be holding a simulation exercise reenacting the racism of the 1950's and 1960's. "Black" students will be denied jobs, glared at when they enter convenience stores, and pulled over for no reason. Man, thank God that doesn't happen anymore.
The purpose of the reenactment was to teach the students about the early days of the Holocaust, but, according to one parent, "I tried to talk to my son and I asked all of these questions and the only thing he said is, 'Daddy, the only thing I found out today is I don't want to be Jewish." Join the club, kid. The school also planned on reenacting the final days of the Holocaust, but that would have been horribly illegal.
The school will also be holding a simulation exercise reenacting the racism of the 1950's and 1960's. "Black" students will be denied jobs, glared at when they enter convenience stores, and pulled over for no reason. Man, thank God that doesn't happen anymore.
posted by quint at 11:19 AM
4 Comments:
Did they stick the L-Z kids in the oven on Friday for pizza day?
That's the dumbest idea.what sick person came up with that?there are just things in history that should NOT be reenacted.
Really not even a funny joke
But if the exercise was carried to the end, the students would learn that God saves & is there in all times. Miracles in the darkest of times. Civil war enactments are horrible enactments of death, too....
if students are exposed to the horrors of history MAYBE those horrors won 't be repeated as history often does. The students will realize that this is what happens in horror history and maybe they will then be able to take a stand against horrors before they grow.
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