{"id":668,"date":"2007-04-03T04:01:39","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T10:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/04\/03\/im-not-sure\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T11:10:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T17:10:04","slug":"im-not-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=668","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not Sure&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;what surprises me more:\u00a0 that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=445979&#038;in_page_id=1770\">some teachers and schools in the UK are softpedalling teaching about the Holocaust and the Crusades<\/a> to avoid offending Moslems&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear of upsetting students whose beliefs include Holocaust denial.<\/p>\n<p>There is also resistance to tackling the 11th century Crusades &#8211; where Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem &#8211; because lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.<\/p>\n<p>[A British government study]\u00a0found some teachers are dropping courses covering the Holocaust at the earliest opportunity over fears Muslim pupils might express anti-Semitic and anti-Israel reactions in class.\u00a0&#8230;[another school] deliberately avoided teaching the Crusades at Key Stage 3 (11- to 14-year-olds) because their balanced treatment of the topic would have challenged what was taught in some local mosques.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;or that any schools in the Western World teach any of this stuff in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not aware of <em>either <\/em>of my kids being taught about the Crusades at all, or anything about the Holocaust at more than the\u00a0 most cursory possible level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, not in school anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;what surprises me more:\u00a0 that some teachers and schools in the UK are softpedalling teaching about the Holocaust and the Crusades to avoid offending Moslems&#8230;: Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Governmentbacked study has revealed. It found some teachers are reluctant to cover the atrocity for fear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}