Seven students from a Tel Aviv high school were kicked out of a Krakow hotel after misbehaving, and are being sent home a day before their school trip in Poland ends, Ynet reports.
Seven students from the school reportedly climbed to the hotel’s roof at night, without their supervisors’ permission, played in the snow and disrupted the guests’ sleep.
Due to their punishment, the seven students will not be able to visit Auschwitz.
The school principal said that some parents claimed that the decision was too harsh, but added that the punishment was aimed at preventing a disaster in the future.
“The students begged to be able to visit Auschwitz in order to say kaddish over their grandparents, but we decided to send them home straight away,” she stated.
(Source: Ynet)
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I dont think the punishment fits the crime. We want everyone to visit Auschwitz as well as the other camps to try to imagine the atrocities that took place. We want the next generation to have some understanding of what happened. Punishing a student by not allowing him this experience is punishing ourselves.
There is hardly any snow in most places in Israel ever. While they certainly shouldn’t have been disrupting people’s sleep, wanting to have some fun in the snow is a little irresistible for kids from here -it’s not evil or destructive. Punishment was too harsh if that’s all that happened.
Hard decision.
Have to let the kids know you mean business. Usually schools have all night supervisors, where were they?
typical israeli “logic” They should have found a different punishment. e.g. – not taking part in a fun trip, or not being allowed to take part in graduation cermonies as one principal in the states punished a few students. now these kids will be anguished by what they DIDN’T see. I guess the teacher also doesn’t realize what Kaddish is.
It’s about time kids learn that there are consequences for their actions, & that schools DO have responsibility to act in cases of pupil disruption.
Was the punishment harsh? Probably. But if you look at the overall picture, you have HS students fooling around in a potentially dangerous environment (snow-covered roof), showing disrespect to others, and when all’s said & done, this was no trip to Hershy Park!
Well done, Principal. Now PLEASE take a job in one of OUR schools where boys and girls (thanks to over-indulgent parents) behave appallingly & inappropriately with impunity. Pick any one…maybe the upscale one where where last I “taught”?
There IS a price to pay if you don’t behave. Lessons MUST be learned.
I can’t help seeing the irony here. ‘Halevai’ that many of our people would have been refused entry to Auschwitz, and saved, during those dark times over 60 years ago. Regarding the victims, HaShem Yinkom Domom.
I find it amazing that so many people point the finger at teachers and principals. Let us not forget that it was the STUDENTS that were misbehaving! What about the parents of those children that ruined it for all the rest. It is time parents take responsibility for the outragous behavior of their ill behaved little monsters especially on an outing that was as important as that one! Nuf said
Amazing! Everyone is concentrating on the wrong issue. Forget about the punishment. What about the chilul hashem? Wake up people!
It is a disgrace and a Chilul HaShem that the world hotel trade knows that Israeli students go wild and destroy property wherever they go. There were just a number of incidents of Israeli vandalism in hotels in Cyprus, and the students were kicked-out of the country. So much for Israeli secular education!
Imagine if you wouldn’t be allowed into Aushwitz for bad behaviour in 1943.
The punishment doesn’t seem appropriate for their actions. And to number 8, since the parents were not there, perhaps it was the responsibility of the school? This is not the first time that students misbehaved on a class trip. Maybe they should have been warned beforehand, maybe they should have been better supervised, maybe…
And the principal’s comment just sounds un-Jewish – someone begs to say kaddish for their grandparents where they were murdered and the principal refused?
I think that the purpose of a trip like this needs to be re-examined. On a recent trip to Warsaw I was also extremely embarassed and disappointed to see a rowdy group of Israeli teens making a spectacle of themselves right outside the cemetary. Perhaps they should not bring this calabre of Israelis until they are a bit older and more mature so that the antisemitsm that is already prevelent in that part of the world not be nurtured.
So ridiculous. Can’t kids have some fun on a trip? And what kind of incongruous ‘punishment’ is not being allowed to visit Auschwitz?
We’re finally getting out revenge at the Poles for all the tzoros they caused us over the years. We’re sending them the Israeli chayos!
Something strange about this. It would seem that a kid who has enough reverence to realize the importance of saying Kddish at his grandparents death place, would approach the whole thing with a soft, gentle and respectful attitude. Obviously they were just interested in the photo op.
Also, were these Israeli students taught in history class about all the ships of Jewish war refugees that were turned away at the port in Israel or were they just taught how terrible the Germans were? (Ever read the book Perfidy?)
15,
The revenge is on US! The poles will be spared the embarrassment of having those kids see proof of what they did to us!