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April 1, 2006
Confused Americans for Truth - Anti-Semitism Simulation Distresses Eighth Graders
Random Yak's Yak of the Week award this week goes to a public school in Florida that put on a disastrous Holocaust Remembrance Day Event.
Apopka Memorial Middle School forced half of the Eighth Graders to wear yellow stars and subjected the victims to all sorts of capricious and unfair treatment. The idea was to simluate Nazi Germany on the eve of the Second World War. Unfortunately, because the students were unprepared for the event, many were unable to figure out the message, and this caused an uproar among the parents.
The purpose of such events is allegedly to keep anything like the Holocaust from ever happening again. I think this is a very worthwhile goal, and now that the hysteria has died down at Apopka Memorial, I have an ingenious plan for testing the effectiveness of their Anti-Semitism Simulation: just ask each of the children what they would do if a foreign government were building nuclear weapons for the purpose of wiping a large concentration of Jewish people off the map or if a crazed dictator were paying young people to blow up Jewish civilians at restaurants and shopping malls.
I think the results of such a survey would be very revealing.
Respectfully submitted,
Ferdinand T. Cat
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