Holocaust lesson gets out of hand
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.
Students and teachers said the students tagged as Jews were forced to stand against the wall as those portraying Germans passed by in the hallway.
The Jewish students were also the last to eat lunch and had to pick up everyone’s garbage, the station reported.
Some students said the exercise got out of hand when the “German” students spat on or hit the Jewish students.
