Holocaust Dropped from History Lessons: Teachers Don't Want to Offend

Math, Science, Geography, and History are just a few of the courses that every child is taught during their career in school. Each subject is taught for a reason, and each subject forms who and what type of country we are today. The world is not a pretty place, history teaches us of the French Revolution, the abolishment of slavery, the invention of the light bulb, the invention of the revolver, the creation of the draft, World War I, the creation of retirement insurance, and so much more, this means also including the Holocaust.

The Holocaust is an event in our history that tends to be either looked upon or looked over depending on if you believe it happened or if you don't. This is just the same as many other events in history that the current and some previous generations were not around for so in turn it can be deemed as something that has not happened.

The subject of teaching the Holocaust is beginning to be overlooked in schools. Many teachers are not teaching the history of the Holocaust because they are trying to stay away from offending the students from certain races and religions as well as trying to avoid teaching it in order to not distress those who do not believe that it had happened.

I believe that this is not appropriate. There are so many times in history where certain races and religions were the targets of some sort of battle. Take the American Civil War; this war is still taught and talked about and it is between the northern United States and the Southern United States. Many students from those areas or have had relatives who had fought in that war may take offense. Same goes for World War II. The Germans were part of that and there was many a conflict and death due to that war, but we don't stop teaching it in the curriculum just because we may offend those who are of German decent or even of a specific religion.