NY Teacher Who Assigned Nazi Jew-Hating Letter Put On Leave

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public-schoolA high school English teacher who had students pretend to be Jew-hating Nazis in a writing assignment has been placed on leave.

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 Friday to apologize for the assignment. The Times Union newspaper reported today that 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.”

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