Georgia school makes sixth-graders create Nazi mascots and parents are furious

[workinclasszero]

Georgia school makes sixth-graders create Nazi mascots — and parents are furious
Elizabeth Preza 06 OCT 2017 AT 11:33 ET


School officials in Gwinnett County, Georgia, are investigating a sixth-grade teacher who asked her students to draw a Nazi mascot as part of a class homework assignment, AJC.com reports.

According to the assignment, students were asked to envision “the year is 1935 and you have been tasked with creating a mascot to represent the Nazi party at its political rallies.”

“Think about all of the information you have learned about Hitler and the Nazi party,” the assignment directed. “You will create a COLORFUL illustration of the mascot. Give the mascot a NAME. You will also write an explanation as to why the mascot was chosen to represent the Nazi party.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/georgia-teacher-assigned-sixth-grade-students-to-create-a-mascot-for-the-nazi-party/

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

1. Teacher agenda much?

Ugh

[workinclasszero]

2. I know right?

I have read lots of alt right fascist groups have been heavily recruiting on college campus's recently.

[underpants]

3. Two years ago my daughter was learning about WWI and was reading a book

called "Someone Named Eva". It was a fictional story about the brainwashing and replacement of kids with Aryan features to Nazi families. The content was fine but one night she grabbed the book to read in bed and I saw the cover. Behind the girl on the cover was a flag with a swastika on it. You couldn't see the whole thing but you could tell what it was. I was livid.

For the next hour I crafted an email to the teacher and principal. My child will NOT carry that around. The fact that she was going to a predominantly Jewish daycare was not the only reason. I put a piece of tape over the swastika the next morning and they provided her with another copy that had a different cover.

[Doreen]

4. If I had a child I would have gone fucking ballistic!

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5. This is appalling. When I was in the 6th grade in 1961, my family lived in Germany. My

siblings and I attended Dept. of Defense schools. We were warned every single school year that it was a crime for anyone to draw a swastika on school grounds (or the base where it was situated). Everyone was still shell-shocked over WWII and tension was building with the Soviet Union. In fact, the Berlin Wall was built the same year, and the army brat fathers spent a lot of time on maneuvers.