[image added by this
website]  Syracuse, New York, Wednesday, February 11, 2004
New
York State News Teacher's lesson
on the pros and cons of Hitler draws
anger  VOORHEESVILLE,
N.Y. (AP) -- A high school teacher
here has been ordered to
apologize
for asking students to debate the pros and cons of
Adolf Hitler.
Anne Lyons instructed her global history
students to debate the positive and negative
effects of Hitler, Benito Mussolini and
Joseph Stalin as part of a Feb. 5
[2004] lesson
exploring how dictators rise to power. When students asked how they could possibly
defend Hitler, Lyons pointed to medical experiments
conducted on Nazi concentration camp prisoners,
which she said led to medical advancements, the
Times Union of Albany reported in
Wednesday's editions. "I believe it was
inappropriate and
insensitive
to the Jewish students," said Mark
Diefendorf, principal of the suburban Albany
high school. "She has been asked to apologize to
the class. If that will save her job, I don't
know."  David
Irving comments: SO much for the
balanced view of global history in New
York state schools.
As for a
small-world view, the name Shelly
Shapiro sounds familair. Oh yes, she
was the one who headed the witch hunt
against Fred Leuchter in
Massachusetts, for practising as an
engineer (which he didn't) without a
licence (as do thousands of other
Massachusetts engineers). Or am I
mistaken? How insensitive. |
Several angry parents called the school demanding
that officials investigate the lesson. Three
parents asked that their children be removed from
Lyons' class."We don't think the teacher is anti-Semitic,"
district Superintendent Allan McCartney told
the newspaper. "We think what she said may have
been misunderstood." Still, Diefendorf said the lesson was probably
unsuitable to present to 14- and 15-year-old
students. Shelly Shapiro, who heads Albany's
Holocaust Friends and
Survivors Education Center, said the center will
hold a previously scheduled workshop for school
districts across the region in April. An attempt to reach Lyons Wednesday at the high
school for comment was unsuccessful. 
Dossier
on the origins of anti-Semitism-
Dossier
on Auschwitz
-
Obituaries
of Lady Diana Mosley: words of quiet praise for
Hitler-
Chicago
Glenview bank praises Adolf Hitler as a great
economic leader | bank
apologises to ADL | too
late, ADL forces bank president to
resign
-
Churchill's pre-war praise for Hitler (where is
that quote?)
| 
write to David
Irving