Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) is calling for the immediate resignation of New York Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia following a reprehensible assignment from a high school teacher in Oswego county that asked students to defend Hitler’s “Final Solution” to exterminate the Jewish people. To make matters worse, the Commissioner defended the assignment as “critical thinking.”
“This is the Education Commissioner’s idea of critical thinking?” asked Hikind. “Had the assignment been to argue in favor of slavery or other human atrocities, would anyone dare to defend it? I honestly couldn’t believe this story when I heard it. I thought it was a sick joke.”
A number of students were upset by the assignment, which they viewed as encouraging anti-Semitism.
The abhorrent assignment follows a State Education department inclusion of an anti-Israeli cartoon in a Regents examination. Hikind objected strongly to that cartoon and the Department of Education later apologized.
“This despicable assignment to these students demands far more than an apology,” said Hikind. “This is a stab in the back to Holocaust survivors. The Education Commissioner is condoning the wrong type of education and has no business overseeing the instruction of New York children.”
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Very scary! How could a school in New work do that? The most populated city of Jews is in New York!
Correction: New York
> encouraging anti-Semitism
An honest remark would add “and encouraging genocide”.
Now, let’s be fair. Let this teacher assign a project to explain why Muslims need to be exterminated. That will get every Democrat political hack to purchase guns, and a declaration of war against anyone who even passes such a thought. If this is somehow a good exercise, try doing it with balance.
Whether in NY or anywhere else, the assignment is reprehensible.
This is Golus!
Nazism never left, it crops up, every once in a while, disguised with some liberal feel good response, such as “critical thinking”.
We are witnessing evil at its core. It always started with “intellectuals”, their ideas, and speeches…