New Jersey fifth-grade girl dresses up as
Hitler for class 'Character Development' project
and writes report in Nazi leader's voice that
reads: 'I was pretty great, wasn't I?'
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Gina Martinez
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/3/2021 3:33:39 AM
A 'Character Development project' that led a New Jersey elementary school student to dress up as Adolf Hitler and write an essay listing the dictator's 'accomplishments' was 'taken out of context', an official said Tuesday, but remains under investigation. Maugham Elementary School in Tenafly is under fire after a fifth-grade girl's assignment included dressing up as the Nazi leader and writing a one-page essay in Hitler's voice that described his rise to power by 'uniting a great mass of German and Austrian people behind me.'Word spread about the project Sunday after an outraged mother posted
Reply 1 - Posted by:
chumley 6/3/2021 5:26:14 AM (No. 804411)
The game is to try to wow the teacher with an angle they hadn't seen before. I did one on Herman Goering trying to show the human side, with all its strengths and weaknesses. I even had an artist at the school make a portrait of him for the cover. Its just an attempt to "one up" the other students in the competitive game of grade getting.
I doubt this kid is any more of a Nazi than I was, and I wasn't.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 6/3/2021 5:27:13 AM (No. 804413)
These people are so stupid. The student wrote an essay “in his voice.” Key words: “in HIS voice.”
He was a megalomaniac. I don’t know how “his voice” could have been portrayed differently.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
TruthFetish 6/3/2021 5:59:10 AM (No. 804436)
Kid has chutzpah. Good job, stirring things up in Tenafly - the state's richest school district. That's what you get when You assign lessons 'within the context of social justice'.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Lazyman 6/3/2021 6:27:44 AM (No. 804453)
She should have added that his hate also destroyed his own country and that people followed him because they couldn't critically think on their own because of propaganda.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
poliposter 6/3/2021 6:56:23 AM (No. 804464)
Did you mean the states 25th richest school district #3? Not sure why that matters anyway but the person who needs to be shamed is the parent making this into something it’s not. I detest people who try to shame 10 year olds and this is not the first time I have seen it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
4Justice 6/3/2021 7:02:22 AM (No. 804471)
When I was in school, we re-enacted the attempt to assassinate Hitler in his bunker in my History class. I was proud to play the hero, von Stauffenberg (the guy who tried to kill him). Now, they are promoting the bad guy to the kids? These are the same people who demonize all Confederates (including Gen. Lee based on limited and misleading information) but they promote Nazi leaders including one of the worst mass murdering, genocidal maniacs of the 20th century?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 6/3/2021 7:31:03 AM (No. 804505)
Did she sing, "Springtime For Hitler and Germany"?
I actually attended Ralph S. Maugham school back in the 50s. My, how times have changed.
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Teaching history requires that we know all the facts, all the good and bad about leaders so we are prepared to be critical in our thinking. Bad guys do not wear signs and do bad things all the time. Truly evil people know how to manipulate and use people's weaknesses to their advantage. It is why the democrat party needs to drug up their followers so that may be more easily swayed by gifts and hand outs.
A child needs to be taught not to take candy from the stranger and the adult needs to look at results not platitudes. See what is happening now and you know that if you voted for this nitwit you made a very big mistake. That is what you learn when you are taught to think critically, and look at facts with clear eyes.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
BarryNo 6/3/2021 7:58:56 AM (No. 804528)
I have doubts that a fifth grader would have the maturity and perspective to understand "self-justification" or "pandering" which is what Hitler did in the name of his social justice.
Very bad idea.
Were there also I page essays on men like, I'd Amein, or Che Guevera? Mao or Stalin? How about Woodrow Wilson? Or the Ayatolah Khomeini? All people who were leaders and also POS.
I'm curious...
They were all leaders
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rama41 6/3/2021 8:18:02 AM (No. 804546)
Had I been a 5th grader in that class, I would have loved to have done a Biden impression.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 6/3/2021 8:38:02 AM (No. 804565)
This in a town that has a large Jewish population? And where is the social justice in this? And Hitler was INFAMOUS! No. 4 is right on.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JackBurton 6/3/2021 9:19:22 AM (No. 804615)
The Elementary school my children went to, public, had a large poster of a quilt made to commemorate the book, The Color Purple. It had specific references to incest and rape. I called it to the attention of a teacher (they SHOULD have known better) and it got taken down. It was colorful...and totally ignored (by everyone but me).
In the panes of glass for an art room there were posters of children from around the world in regional clothing. Saris in India. Leiderhosen for Bavaria. Cold weather clothing for Lap Landers. And kids in red shirts for China. About 8 in all. I stood in front of the display for a few minutes until the teacher came over to thank me for my interest. I pointed out that the only thing akin to the Chinese commie outfits would be German youth in brown shirts and walked away.
That disappeared, too.
Teachers. Bag of hammers. Which is smarter?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
foxglove 6/3/2021 9:50:52 AM (No. 804669)
I don’t know if everyone read the one page essay which ended with his belief in anti-semitism leading to killing 6 million Jews. She knows who the guy is which is something history courses are deleting in favor of studying WWII starting at big bad America bombing Japan. Taking things out of context lead to things like this.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/3/2021 10:11:55 AM (No. 804697)
It's a good thing she didn't choose a black character and put on blackface. They would have thrown her in jail.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 6/3/2021 10:25:56 AM (No. 804724)
Since schools have become a sort of Nazi indoctrination centers for the left, the teacher will probably give her an A because of her love of the dear leader.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 6/3/2021 11:54:26 AM (No. 804827)
A sad, sick stunt.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 6/3/2021 12:30:29 PM (No. 804859)
It sounded like a good assignment... (I actually heard the details on the Glen Beck show).
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
sciteach 6/3/2021 2:12:33 PM (No. 804965)
The worst thing the teacher and school did was not communicate well before-hand about the purpose and scope of the lesson. People are too quick to jump to conclusions these days. It was a history lesson about a real person; albeit a very evil one. I have heard commentators say that if Hitler had died in '34 or '35 he could have gone down as the man who turned Germany around. But his hatred for certain people over-road everything and we got what we got. And then of course, he told everyone his plans in Mein Kampf. Maybe people should read a book once in awhile. Especially when written by someone looking for power.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/3/2021 2:15:50 PM (No. 804968)
A great project. There is a lot to be learned from the study of Hitler and Nazi Germany. All the documents of the government of this era are available publicly, allowing the most inspection of any government in history. Hitler was no fool, and not crazy. Hitler was very focused on his objectives, and worked very hard to achieve them. Stalin wondered how he did it, studied Hitler, and copied him. Hitler was one of the first politicians to embrace the airplane, traveling all over to give his speeches, purchasing newspapers, and distributing party propaganda throughout Germany. The Democrat Party copies some of the same procedures used by Hitler decades ago.
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But can she read, write and do arithmetic ?
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