Factual question: has the holocaust been removed from the curriculum?

[Blu]

And if so - why?

Any curriculum specialists know?

I hope not.

well my dd studied it quite recently
even went to a concentration camp

but that was yr 9 about 3 yrs ago

My son (the 10yo) said it has, but when I asked I was told that it hasn't. Although admittedly, I asked the art teacher who could be wrong.

Am looking forward to hearing the answer!

He is in Year 6 - so primary curriculum.

I saw in a newspaper the other day that all schools are going to be offered a place for a teacher to go to seminars/courses (forget the details) to be the school's "holocaust expert" so I think it must still be on the currriculum.

I think it was the Times, not a Scottish paper (probably...)

I am sure DD did it in Year 5 as she became interested in Anne Frank. Now in Year 6 she is covering WW2 so I will ask her tonight.

snopes

DH works for a charity that is connected with the holocaust and they definitely do work in schools connected with the holocaust.

The Holocaust Education Trust also does a lot of education work. I don't know if it is still part of the History curriculum although I presumed it was.

I can ask DH what he knows about it.

I see that it appears to be a false claim according to monkeymonkeymonkey.

DD studying it now - year 9

There is an email campaign at the moment that says that the UK is banning the teaching of the Holocaust in schools - is that what you are referring to? It is absolute bollocks and has been reported as such by the BBC.

Yes, thank you Monkey, that is exactly the rumour I am trying to get to the bottom of before forwarding the very very impressive and powerful powerpoint presentation I have been sent on exactly this issue.

Very good statement fom the Holocaust Eductional Trust - here

Ds is in Y5 and is studying WWII. They are however not studying the holocaust - I went and asked his teacher and she said 'not till much later, at secondary school.
Which would make sense. We went to the Imperial War Museum over teh October half term and the Holocaust exhibition was 'not suitable for children under age 14'

Glad to hear it is just a rumour - I would be very cross if they did not study it.

Snopes is a great site for checking whenever you hear something that doesnt sound quite likely.
Do you mean that someone has taken the time to write a presentation about this? What a waste of time for them.

Times article "Every school to get Holocaust specialist under anti-racism initiative"

It comes with a message exhorting you to take part in spreading it to thousands of people.
I see it as very mischievous or worse, actually - since it explains that teaching the holocaust "offended the muslim pospulation belief that the holocaust never took place. This is an intimidating omen concerning the fear that is affecting the world, and each country is allowing itself to be carried away too easily'.

It calls for 40million signatures, with emotional leverage about the 'for evil to succeed only needs..' you know the quote.

Quite scurrilous, really.

The national curriculm isn't very specific in which history needs to be studied at KS3, so it is possible to go through school without looking at the holocaust, I think it unlikely, at our school they look at it in year 9 and then again at GCSE.

I was sent a presentation which may be the one you have got and it was actually very impressive. Lots of horrific photos which did get the point across. But the ending (ie re the curriculum changing) was rubbish which was a shame.

I got that email from my mum who got it from someoen in the US. As it was my mum I sent her back a very polite email explaining that it was false and givign her full details. If it had been anyone else they'd have recieved a blasting. I HATE this kinda malisious hate mail stuff that pretends it isnt hate mail by pretendign to support a very good cause. Makes the whoel nastyness even more nasty. oooo it makes me so irate.

I have indeed replied with a message explaining (politely but clearly) why I will NOT pass it on.

Was wondering whether I should have sent my reply to the whole 'reply to all' circulation list...

I think you should do that Blu - so many people will be believing that nonsense, foaming at the mouth, and passing it on. It's worth pointing out to them that a small amount of checking has shown it up to be totally false, and might get them to be more careful in future.

Blu - dh always returns such e-mails to all the persons listed on the top of the email with a link to snopes.
Because they should all know not to pass it on.

These emails make me soooo cross, MIL is one of the worst offenders [red]

[red] should of course be

Find it really frightening the way people believe anything they get sent by email (in the same way they believe the Daily Mail . It takes seconds to check things out on google - there are whole sites dedicated to debunking this stuff, but some people actually want to believe it.

Our primary school got the kids to do an excellent assembly which touched on the holocaust but they had parents complaining to the governors. DD2 hasn't done it yet (Y10) but has read very widely on the subject and seen the Imperial War Museum exhbition twice. Found it so absorbing she got separated from the rest of the class.