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PostSubject: New York teacher in row over Nazi letter   New York teacher in row over Nazi letter Icon_minitimeSun Apr 14, 2013 12:48 am
A high school English teacher in New York state who had students pretend to be Jew-hating Nazis in a writing assignment has been placed on leave.

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Albany Public Schools Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard said the assignment was not malicious, but was unacceptably insensitive.


The teacher at Albany High School caused a storm of criticism after having students practice the art of persuasive writing by penning a letter to a fictitious Nazi government official arguing that "Jews are evil."

District Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard held a news conference to apologise for the assignment.

The Times Union newspaper reported the teacher was not in class on Friday and had been placed on leave by the school district.

The district has not named the teacher, who was described as a veteran.

The writing assignment was done before a planned class reading of the memoir Night, by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel.

For the assignment, the teacher asked students to research Nazi propaganda, then write a letter trying to convince an official of the Third Reich "that Jews are evil and the source of our problems."

"Review in your notebooks the definitions for logos, ethos, and pathos," the teacher's assignment said.

"Choose which argument style will be most effective in making your point. Please remember, your life (here in Nazi Germany in the '30s) may depend on it!"

Wyngaard said she didn't think the assignment was malicious but "it displayed a level of insensitivity that we absolutely will not tolerate."
Many of the students were dismayed by the assignment. Some refused to write the essay.

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