According to a shocking new report, a fifth-grader at the exclusive Maugham School in New Jersey was allowed and encouraged to dress up as mass murderer Adolf Hitler and give a presentation on the genocide of six million jews.
As The Post Millenial reports:
A fifth-grade student at the Maugham School in Tenafly, New Jersey, dressed as Adolf Hitler to deliver a teacher approved character development project on the mass murderer to the class. An investigation has begun under the office of the superintendent.
Last week, the student presented their character development project dressed as Hitler and wrote in first person that the dictator’s “accomplishments” were “…uniting a great mass of German and Austrian people behind me.”
The student continued, “I rose to power as the leader of the Nazi party, becoming chancellor in 1933 then assuming title of Fuhrer and Reichskanzler in 1934.”
The student then explained Hitler’s titles. “Fuhrer and Reichskanzler means leader and chancellor. I was pretty great wasn’t I?”
The school is now reportedly investigating the incident after being shamed by local media, but the real question is why a seemingly progressive school would allow its students to do a report glorifying the mass murderer of jews in the first place.
Big deal, so what?
My kid wouldn’t have dresses as hitler. I blame the parents or whoever is supposed to be in charge
History is history. Stop the hysterics.
Such a true democrat communist proclaiming “how great I am” as hitler.
I don’t think some of you guys are seeing the issue. I could care less about the kid dressing as Hitler. History is History. The monster is real. It did exist. The REAL issue here is the narrative the child was allowed to push forward. The fact is, Hitler did accomplish those things. He took a nation that was in crisis, a nation that was failing, and united it to become a superpower. He preyed upon the people’s needs, promising to fulfil them, if they followed him. He did this under the guise of national unity and solidarity. Thus creating a war machine that was damn near unstoppable. HOWEVER, in the process, he stole the very soul of the nation. He achieved the title of the #1 Mass Murder and Most Infamous Gynocidal Maniac in recorded history. His actions DID propel him to the rank of one of the most influential people in history, but the WHOLE story must be told.
That is where our nation today is making the same mistake. You cannot take a few facts from the story and treat them as the whole story. I can pretty much take almost any character in history, and, by SELECTIVELY presenting their “accomplishments”, make the out to be great leaders and humanitarians. I will not bore you with examples, but I think you see my point. The child is in 5th grade. He has zero understanding of Hitler’s true (negative) impact on the world. His parents either encouraged that ignorance because of their own character flaws, or their ineptness as parents because they didn’t get involved in the kid’s schoolwork. The teacher allowed the presentation without making sure it was presented with ALL THE FACTS. That is the new liberal left methodology at work. You might be surprised at what I am about to say. Let me present an idea for you: I bet you, given a little help from the media, that I could take a random lifelong criminal, a felon, who was on parole for drug crimes, and who was actually in the process of committing another felony…. lets say… attempting to knowingly pass counterfeit currency… AND in possession of the very narcotics that put him in prison in the first place…. (I know, crazy right..) who gets caught by the police, then fights with them and tries to ingest the drugs so he wont get caught with them….. drugs which are fatal if ingested…. and he dies because he quits breathing due to the drugs he ingests……and turn him into a “National Martyr”. I know this is an insane scenario. But you would be surprised what you can pull over on the American ( or German, or anyone for that matter) people if you only give selective facts about person.
I guess this is what they are referring to when they rewrite history…..
It’s a presentation exposing the character of a killer in the group of other dictators. Actors portray real life characters all the time. It’s looking into the mind of Hitler who thinks he’s find and yet isn’t. To know your enemy is to know the way to kill him and Hitler died due to his way of thinking. Know a better way to point this out to the class, of course, there is always someone who doesn’t get the point of the presentation but this kid did it well. Dictators, killers of their own people and those not their people don’t think like you and I normal people. That is how wars get going, a killer in charge of an army and the need of someone who is capable of destroying that killer. Remember WWII anyone. Bet the kids will remember this kids skit of drama. In our history class we had a teacher who had kids groups present little plays on the history they were studying for that session. They decided who played who, a full biography or a piece of the character’s history and the character’s real words had to be used. Nobody fell asleep in that class and I got to play a nurse during the plaque, gruesome but the kids knew how the plaque spread, the helplessness of the time, 1/3 of the world’s population dead, etc. in full uniform of that time, I don’t know woman managed to physically move in those days to save anyone.
While your underwear is tied up in knots – the children are being fed Critical Race Theory that will do much more damage than a student in a Halloween costume.