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Fast Forward Massachusetts teacher resigns after antisemitic harassment from a student
The teacher says he's not upset by 'ignorant comments' from a child, but worries that without intervention, the hate will 'fester'
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Fast Forward Teacher at Baltimore Jewish school arrested for rape, child pornography
‘We are horrified and saddened,’ the school wrote to parents
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Culture I was a secular English teacher in an Orthodox school
Teaching Arthur Miller and Sherman Alexie to a group of yeshiva bokherim made for more than a few challenges
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Opinion Children at my daughter’s school were forced to reenact the Holocaust
Last week, the librarian at my daughter’s school — Watkins Elementary School in Washington, D.C. -— instructed a class of third graders to “act out” the Holocaust. She instructed the children to pretend they were on a train going to a concentration camp and to pretend to shoot each other, dig mass graves and die…
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Fast Forward Florida Principal: Holocaust Is Not A ‘Factual, Historical Event’
(JTA) — A high school principal in Boca Raton, Florida, told a parent that inquired about the school’s educational plan for teaching the Holocaust that “Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened.” Spanish River Community High School principal William Latson wrote in an April 2018 email that “the curriculum is to be introduced but not forced upon…
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Fast Forward American Teachers Slam Israel’s Classroom Ban On Political Opinions
NEW YORK (JTA) — The heads of the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors jointly condemned a law proposed by Israel’s education minister that would bar the expression of political views in classrooms. “The ‘code of ethics’ that the government of Israel is considering for the country’s academic institutions is a…
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News Chicago’s Two Big Jewish Antagonists Reach a Settlement, Averting Teachers Strike
A Chicago Public Schools teachers’ strike was narrowly averted when union leaders, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and school board officials came to a tentative last-minute agreement late Monday night, just minutes before the deadline at midnight October 9. The strike, which would have kept nearly 380,000 students out of class, had been scheduled to begin at…
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