(Nancy, France) A 58-year-old high school history teacher, Catherine Pederzoli, has been suspended from her teaching position for exposing her students to too much Holocaust history without "sufficient neutrality."
"If this teacher had been a Christian, no-one would have accused her of brain-washing," alleged lawyer Christine Tadic. "Isn't it the case that this teacher's fault is to have been Jewish?"I'm not smart enough to know how anyone could express neutrality about the Holocaust. It seems that school administrators want the subject to be taught as, "Sure, millions of innocent people were murdered but, to be fair, …???"
Nancy local education authorities were not immediately available to respond to the charge, but a report compiled by school inspectors revealed that they did have concerns over Pederzoli's teaching of the Holocaust.
The report, compiled last month, alleged the teacher took up too much time preparing pupils for annual school trips to Poland and the Czech Republic to visit sites like the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.
A copy of the report, seen by AFP, accuses Pederzoli of "lacking distance, neutrality and secularism" in teaching the Holocaust and of manipulating her charges through a process of "brain-washing".
What conceivable balance is there to express a neutral position on the Holocaust? This whole episode is bizarre!
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