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11/08/2008: "(UK) Every school to get Holocaust specialist under anti-racism initiative"
Every secondary school is to get a Holocaust specialist to ensure that the subject is taught comprehensively and sensitively.
One teacher from every school will be offered a place on a Holocaust education training course to combat racism and intolerance.
Stuart Foster, director of the project, said: "There are increasing concerns in society about intolerance and racism. The BNP is coming to the forefront, and there's increased anti-Semitism."
Ruth-Anne Lenga, education consultant at the Jewish Museum, said that the Holocaust was often covered very briefly by schools despite being on the school curriculum. "It could be the emotiveness of the subject worries teachers, or it raises difficult moral challenges and questions. We want to ensure there's support."
[ The BNP contains Jewish members and organizers and has a policy not to deny the Holyco$t, so the concerns raised in the report must really be over the public exercising a democratic preference for a simply conservative party that the establishment disapproves of. People are getting sick of efforts to religiously ram a detail of history down our throats, that is just an account of one massacre which is far less murderous than the massacre of Russians under Stalinism. ]
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article5106164.ece