Teaching The Holocaust In Schools

The Holocaust, one of the biggest events to happen in history, is being debated whether to teach it in school or not. The Holocaust was a big event in history that every child has to learn about at some point. That point should be in 8th grade. That is when the kids start to be more mature and can handle the horribly detailed events of the Holocaust. The Holocaust should be taught in the 8th grade because it is a very important part of history and 8th graders are more mature at that age.

The Holocaust lesson should be taught so that the students learning about the Holocaust so they can be well educated when it comes to history. The article why should we teach the Holocaust, said “Knowledge of the events is also viewed by some as a means
As the article Should We Stop Teaching the Holocaust in Schools said, “The National Curriculum is now irredeemably a vehicle for promoting the dumbing down of the nation and its slavish adherence to every daft nostrum of the leftist intelligentsia.” The teaching of the Holocaust is not good for a school environment. Children in middle school are not mature enough to handle the information that would be given. The topic may also offend some children or make them feel uncomfortable. The Holocaust topic has offended children before because of their race. If the child was German or Jewish, they could think that the whole race of Germans or the Jews were bad. Which could lead to the child telling their parents what they learned? The parents would then complain to the school about what the school is teaching. That is how the whole debate on the Holocaust being taught started. The Holocaust is also very gory. It has a lot of killing of Jews in the event and some children will not be able to understand the information about the Holocaust. Kids are impressionable and they could become even more violent from learning about the Holocaust because of all it’s killing. It could very easily scare kids and their parents too. A lot of parents are very protective of their kids and don’t think that the Holocaust is a suitable topic for them. Those kind of parents think that the Holocaust will strike fear in their child’s heart or it will influence the child to be a violent child. A caring parent does not want his or her child being a violent