NEW YORK (AP) — New York school district officials have placed a high school English teacher on leave for having students pretend to be Jew-hating Nazis in a writing assignment.
The teacher at Albany High School caused a storm of criticism after having students practice the art of persuasive argument by writing a letter to a fictitious Nazi government official arguing that "Jews are evil."
District Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard held a news conference Friday apologizing for the assignment.
The Times Union reports (http://bit.ly/ZTc4PU ) that the teacher was not in class Friday and has been placed on leave.
The school district has not named the teacher, who was described as a veteran. Monday's assignment was brought to administrators' attention by a parent of one of the students. Some students refused to write the assignment.
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Information from: Times Union, http://www.timesunion.com
The teacher at Albany High School caused a storm of criticism after having students practice the art of persuasive argument by writing a letter to a fictitious Nazi government official arguing that "Jews are evil."
District Superintendent Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard held a news conference Friday apologizing for the assignment.
The Times Union reports (http://bit.ly/ZTc4PU ) that the teacher was not in class Friday and has been placed on leave.
The school district has not named the teacher, who was described as a veteran. Monday's assignment was brought to administrators' attention by a parent of one of the students. Some students refused to write the assignment.
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Information from: Times Union, http://www.timesunion.com