I am confused as to what would be a "more age-appropriate" way to teach eighth grade kids about that holocaust than letting them read Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus. I was taught about the holocaust in 7th grade social studies. The introduction to that section was notorious. The walls of the classroom were covered with photos and captions documenting the progression of the holocaust. The depictions were graphic. Us 7th grade kids weren't laughing or making jokes over the nudity or the violence. It was a real thing that happened to real people. And other real people did it to them.
And yet we've got a school board complaining that naked cartoon mice conflict with the values that they want to teach their children. They'd rather ban books like the Nazis than teach about what the Nazis did. [BBC]
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