Holocaust Teaching Removed From Some British Schools

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@Dreamer

@Petter

Isn’t school in general brainwashing?

Yep

Does anyone think that there might be a case for not teaching the holocaust and other war related matters (before they become optional), not because of it offending people, but because of it upsetting people.

In a recent survey of the developed nations, Britain came worst for children’s happiness. British children are apparently the unhappiest in the developed world.

I think that the curriculum has changed since you were at school moogle, because I did a lot about both world wars when I was very young. We even watched a video about the horrors of the concentration camps. In English lessons we did war poetry.

And all of it upset me (and scared me) quite a lot. If we force children to go to school, shouldn’t we be teaching them happy things?

As Moogle says, you can learn about these things outside of school. I have only recently found out about the Dresden bombing for example. I had no idea that the British were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths near the end of the second world war (there’s an example of brainwashing Petter).

Yes, it’s important to learn from the mistakes of the past, (though knowledge of the Holocaust has not stopped other holocausts in the 20th century), but it’s also important to look to the future, and how things can be improved from here.

I did not appreciate being an 11 year old and being told of the agony of dying from mustard gas in the first world war, or being told of the death of millions of people, and seeing pictures of piles of dead bodies. I would have been quite happy not to learn about it.

Britain’s children are the most unhappiest because it’s one of the worst countries for drinking, drugs, racism and bullying, not to mention that Britain has some of the crappiest parents on the planet, families that have no idea how to behave together and a lot of divorces. I could go on, but I’m getting bored.

All of it scared you and upset you? No ■■■■, Sherlock. The Nazi’s put people in ovens, gassed them and did unthinkable experiments on them. Because they were Jewish. The thing’s I mentioned are only the start of a long list. How can you only suggest that school’s only teach you happy things? If schools did that, children would be brainwashed in the most awful way imaginable. Children need to be taught about this, they need to know what happened. Schools can’t pretend this didn’t happen because it wasn’t a happy thing. I’m afraid that theory cuts absoloutley no ice with me , and I doubt that many others will be impressed either. Because this wasn’t a happy event children have to learn about it. The Jewish people were put through living hell and people need to know. You propose that we pretend this never happened and deny these children the right to know about it (in case you spring this point on me, I do not believe that pre-teens would choose this topic for themselves, given the choice). How can you even suggest it?

And the thought that this is happening, that people are ignoring this because an Islamic minority in our society does not accept this event occured, sickens me.

This incredibly important thing is not being taught because this Islamic minority do not agree with it and because of that they don’t want anyone to learn about it. Even begining to defend this is ridiculous.