Sometimes, we need to look at the dark parts of our past so we can make sure we don’t make the same mistakes again. So why are some schools in the UK avoiding “controversial” subjects like slavery or the Holocaust? Because heaven forbid someone is offended.This is not only sad, its scary.
Some schools avoid teaching the Holocaust and other controversial history subjects as they do not want to cause offence, research has claimed.
Teachers fear meeting anti-Semitic sentiment, particularly from Muslim pupils, the government-funded study by the Historical Association said.
It also said the way the slave trade was taught could leave both white and black children feeling alienated.
To quote George Santayana, “Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it.”
Or, from the movie Sweet Home Alabama “History’s history. No use sweeping it under the rug.”