School District Pulls 'Was the Holocaust a Hoax?' Research Assignment
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California’s Rialto School District, north of San Bernardino, has announced that they’re officially striking an assignment from the 8th grade curriculum that asked students to argue “whether or not you believe this was an actual event in history, or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth.” 0____0
An 18-page packet accompanying the assignment included content taken directly from crazybrains conspiracy theory Holocaust denial websites, as well as the venerable bastion of scholarly research known as About.com. The provided source material stated that concentration camps were a “hoax,” Anne Frank was a fraud, no Jewish people died in gas chambers, and “With all this money at stake for Israel, it is easy to comprehend why this Holocaust hoax is so secretly guarded.”