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Me: When are we going to give the student survey and where can we get it?
Admin: Oh, that's not important right now.
*20 minutes later*
Admin E-Mail: Here is the student survey. Remember, this is important.
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Boom. Rocking that whiteboard artistry.
...You only have 3 school days left? Jealous.
Enthusiastic twitter teachers be like:
“You gotta #MakeItReal! How can we make fidget spinners a #TeachableMomemt ?!”
Me, an intellectual: “So kids, basically the spinner is the Lotus flower, and if you don’t stop, we’ll never continue on Odysseus’ journey.”
My school banned them and it has seriously made me so happy.
Jordan April and Archer Shurtliff are high school students in Oswego, NY who took a brave stand against injustice despite the stunning moral failure of the adults tasked with educating them.
On February 15, 2017, Oswego County High School teacher Michael DeNobile gave his students an assignment he’s been giving for several years. He divided the class into two parts. One group of teens was assigned to oppose the Nazi genocide of the Jews, the other group was told to advocate for it. The students assigned to defend the Holocaust were expected to back up their work with sources from Nazi propaganda and modern-day Internet hate sites. Nobody had ever complained about the assignment before, but Jordan and Archer - neither of whom is Jewish - were deeply offended by the idea of making students justify the genocide of the Jews. They complained to their teacher, Michael DeNobile, who brusquely dismissed their concerns and insisted they complete the assignment. Archer was supposed to argue for the Holocaust, and Jordan was supposed to argue against. After DeNobile refused to retract the assignment, the kids approached other educators in their school, who also shut down their concerns. Jordan and Archer took their complaint all the way to the NY State Commissioner of Education, MaryEllen Elia, who shockingly defended the assignment and told them the purpose was to “understand all sides of the issue.“ Jordan and Archer, only 15 and 17 years old, refused to let it go. Their strong sense of right and wrong would not allow them to participate in an assignment that reeked of dangerous moral relativism. They contacted the Anti-Defamation League, where they finally encountered adults with a moral compass. The ADL issued a statement condemning the assignment for suggesting there are two equally valid sides to every issue, including genocide. Even after the ADL’s strong statement against the assignment, Michael DeNobile and MaryEllen Elia continued to defend it, and refused to let the students complete an alternate assignment. Only after media outlets heard about the story did the morally challenged high school teacher and Commissioner of Education back down. Jordan and Archer were allowed to do an alternate assignment, which did not involve justifying hatred and violence. Jordan explored America’s response to the AIDS crisis, and Archer wrote about the internment of Japanese-Americans. Both students’ parents supported them completely, but sadly, many of their classmates criticized them for speaking out. One student said that it was important to “become more sympathetic to everyone and to humanize the Nazis to see their side of the story.” This is the danger of teaching moral relativism to impressionable young people. Teacher Michael DeNobile and Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia finally offered a weak apology, but they have suffered no penalty for their appalling lack of moral sense. Hopefully they will not give an assignment of this nature in the future. Judaism teaches that we are to hate evil, not justify it. For bravely pushing back against morally challenged educators, despite community ostracism, we honor Jordan April and Archer Shurtliff as this week’s Thursday Heroes at Accidental Talmudist. Image courtesy of Syracuse dot com
I’ve seen this story going around, and it’s crucial to note one thing about the assignment as given: as a student in this class, whether you were told to argue for or against the genocide of the Jews, you were required to state your argument from the viewpoint of a Nazi officer.
This teacher should be fired, and almost certainly won’t be.
“There are two sides to every story” but I’m some cases one of them is indefensible. Fuck everything about this. That entire faculty should be fired.
Why did they need an “alternate assignment”? I think fighting/arguing/debating against the original lame-ass assignment given by the numb-nut teacher who was backed up by other so-called “educators” was proof enough that these kids have better brains than the ‘adults’ in this story. I am in full agreement that there should NEVER be normalization of people who commit heinous acts against either humanity or the planet.
What. In. Heaven.
I’m kind of interested in what the purpose of the assignment was. I think there is something to be said for learning about how propaganda works and what would make people join the Nazi cause ( or just not speak up against it). “Seeing all sides of the story” may be a bad way of putting it as it implies some empathy. If this was a cut and dry debate that is stupid, but if this was a lesson about propaganda, oppression, and the banality of evil, then it has potential to be enlightening and valuable. The Holocaust happened for a reason and it’s important to understand why it happened- not just say it was bad (because...yeah).
Trying this approach today to fidget spinners.
Principal did a walk through observation today and I won points for having this written on my board. 😍😍😍😍
I love everything about this!
I like this. Unfortunately today I turned my class into an official “no spin zone” so it’s a done deal.
if you live in maine and your house isn’t haunted by a woman whose husband died at sea than what is even the point?
Fidget Spinners
My God. Please.
I would rather desk tapping or some other inane behavior than these things, tbh. Hopefully their novelty will wear off soon and they will actually become useful.
Fuck. Yo. Spinners.
And whoever decided to market them as fidget toys is an evil genius. Send the spinners to hell where they will join their Tech Deck brethren in a pit of fire.
I would like a glass of wine but I know it will give me heartburn. So perhaps I should have some tea.
But...wine.
True Story: I had this poster on my wall and when my sister was a toddler she ripped it and I cried and yelled that I didn’t want her as a sister anymore because I LOVED that tiger posters MORE THAN ANYTHING!!!!
I might still be a little bitter about it.
fortinbras getting to denmark like:
Hamlet
One of our all-time favorite uses of a gif: this scene from Community to explain the end of Hamlet.
Clue (1985)