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1908, 23 Feb 20

Baltimore Schools Defend Trump/Nazi Teaching

Uh huh… “out of context.” Suuuure. Or, the teacher sent exactly the message he/she intended to.

The photo of the slide shows a picture of Trump with the words “wants to round up a group of people to build a giant wall.” Below that picture is another one depicting a Nazi symbol that captioned “been there” and another showing a communist hammer and sickle with the words “done that.”

On the side of the slide are the words “oh, THAT is why it sounds so familiar!”

Szeliga also shared a quote from Baltimore County Public Schools regarding the matter.

In the statement, the district said the slide had been used as part of an AP history lesson in which topics “being discussed included World Wars and the attempts by some leaders to limit, or prevent migration, into certain countries.”

“In isolation and out of context with the lesson, the image could be misunderstood. In our Advanced Placement (AP) classes, which are college level courses, we expect and encourage analysis and discussion around historical and current events even if they are considered controversial,” the district continued.

“This lesson was not intended to make a political statement. If a student has concerns when discussing a controversial issue, schools have the tools to address the concern and support the student,” the district also said in the statement.

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1908, 23 February 2020

3 Comments

  1. Mar

    And I am sure they depicted President Obama as a Muslim terrorist.
    Oh wait, they probably didn’t.

  2. Kevin Scheunemann

    Awful. Just awful.

    This kind of thing is why it might be difficult to save public school systems going forward. They are largely run by radical anti-Americans that have no clue rhe harm their awful ideological liberal nonsense does.

  3. Mike

    The school’s message or no message. 2 posts up is the story about a school suppressing student speech.

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