Schools are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government backed study has revealed.
...is precisely equivalent to this:
Brian Alters, director of the Evolution Education Research Centre at McGill University, says the problem stems from a general de-emphasizing of evolution in our classrooms – from curriculum that barely mentions it, to teachers who avoid a topic they fear will be controversial with students or parents.
"If you know you are going to get a lot of flak, there are ways to dance around it," says Alters, in Toronto recently to speak on the issue.
And I deplore both trends. I have absolutely zero sympathy for the folks in Quebec demanding that women remove their veils to vote; I am also against feeding Christians to Lions, generally speaking, although I like Lions far better and there's always more Christians...
However, accommodation should end at the doors of the Science and History class. These places are where children learn the common ground of our Culture, upon which all of our further arguments and disagreements are tested and settled.
Put them aside and Chaos follows.
