Ok, first this is a totally inappropriate assignment for an 8th grader. At the same time, a lot of really useful learning takes place when you attempt to play "devils advocate" on a issue. I attempted to do it in high school by writing a research paper on making the UN a world government. ( I thought I could be funny ) but, after digging hard to find something that could make a real case for it I ended up turning in a paper on the failures of the UN. I got a A on the paper, and my teacher let me in on a secret and very dangerous book. That book, was Atlas Shrugged. So, I would suggest that a more advanced student would be put in the horrible position of trying to disprove the holocaust and the result would be that they would have a far better understanding. But, 8th graders are not ready for that kind of depth just yet. What I find interesting is there was somewhat lower hanging fruit. Just take the assignment text load it into word and do a search and replace.. Replacing Holocaust with Climate Change

Yes.

terrifying and sadly inspirational motivation for my writing.

Point for you for that quote. Scary isn't it.

When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.”

Adolf Hitler
Speech November 1933, quoted in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer

"There are just so many things wrong here I don' t know where to begin."-- Same thoughts here.

8th grade? Why is the school doing this? Why would they get death threats (some kind of nutjob out there)? The whole thing....

You know...why can't we let our children have a childhood anymore? We must stuff their minds, at this young age, with thoughts like this. When I was 8 I was running around with a bb gun and fishing pole. When kids do that now they get shot by the police. They are bombarded with all kinds of innapropriate input. College will cost them more than the house their parents bought... It's clear that kids are not a high priority to our society. A very wise engineer I used to work with (long since retired) once said, "You know...You get one childhood. And, when it's over, it's long gone. You don't get another one." This reminds me of that...

Sorry for the rant...

This is another case where we get the issue corrected but no explanation as to how it happened. The department that made up the questionnaire is named but an actual person or persons had to write it. Who and why?

Common Core the early years:

"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."
Vladimir Lenin

"Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever."
Vladimir Lenin

Wow, No Holocaust, Chavez as an example in homework, wow, just unbelievable. Common core in action.

Very good questions, and why wasn't the reporter asking them? Point for you.

Good point Rich, and a point for you.

There are many things about the Holocaust that can and should be discussed. The superintendent is a worm. When this happened he should have been front and center fielding questions and explaining what happened. Perhaps we should ask him if the death threats really happened.

1. Why did it happen in the first place?
2. The superintendent, Mohammad Islam, once attention was drawn to it didn 't understand the fuss.3. Death threats?! That 's how we win the intellectual battle?
4. A UN Resolution? ! That 's how we justify true history? 5 . Sensitivity training?! Really? Yea that 'll work. 6. A proper assignment might have been to discuss all the millions of people who went to the death camps but why everyone remained docile including jewish people when the govt forced them to wear patches and then register their property. While people were hiding and fleeing in the dead of night few stood up to Hitler.