UK: Holocaust dropped from history lessons
 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...&ito =newsnow


Unbelievable! What is that? A belated April fool hoax? But the article says 2nd April 2007.. is it really that bad already?

I'm sorry to say this is probably true. Our nation's whole constitution seems to be being re-written so as not to offend anyone.

I think that is stupid to not offend people. You just have too at some points.

I never learned about The Holocaust in school. Or was i just not paying attention?

Trying to teach history in such a way as to not offend anyone is to forget that some things in history are actually offensive.

I'm surprised that we haven't yet seen the usual press outcry about some local council saying that Easter must be called "Spring Festival" so as not to upset non-Christians.

I give up.

holo what?

our holocaust lessons at school seemed to consist of watching shindlers list. Still it's really stupid to stop teaching it in schools if this is true.

so surely this going to offend jews then?

But there are less of them than there are of... whoever it is that might be offended by teaching about the holocaust.

I've just realised, this article is from the Daily Mail. It is, therefore, with apologies to anyone who may be offended by this opinion, a load of right-wing shite.

yeah, i noticed that so i looked it up on the guardian website, here's their more level headed version:

Taking a History class in the UK is the most depressing thing ever.

Up to year 9 all I learned about was The Blitz, The Holocaust, and the horrible details about how gas peeled people's faces off and made them vomit their own lungs up. For some reason I ended up taking a History GCSE, and it's even more depressing! We started off with World War One- trench foot, bodies being eaten by rats, starvation. Then we moved on to The Rise of Hitler- need I say more? THEN we had to learn about Vietnam, and how napalm burns young children. THEN of course, we move on to the USSR 1945-1990. It is the most depressing country on earth.

In short, I'm glad something has been removed from this depress-o-rama, but this seems to have been taken out for all the wrong reasons. I think after what muslims did to the London Transportation System we shouldn't really bother about pissing them off anymore.

where to start?

Things will get worse, I have no doubt about that. It won't be long before the government is saying sorry to Moslems for the hurt caused by the Crusades.

?!?
are you drunk?

From what I understand from my niece, who is fourteen, history before the twentieth century just does not get taught in schools now. The point of history lessons today seems not to be to teach how the world became what it is today but to teach that nothing good comes of being nasty to one another. Hence it's all the dark stuff that gets taught.

british schools history lessons are pretty bad. many germans i talked too knew more about british history than i.

when i did history GCSE i don't think we learned any british history, other than the two world wars.

we watched Roots!!!!