Jewish student reprimanded for revealing class' Nazi salute

[Behind the Aegis]

A Jewish high school student said he couldn't believe what was going on when a history teacher in a wealthy Alabama school system had classmates stand and give a stiff-armed Nazi salute during a lesson on the way symbols change.

Once he shared a video and photos of the incident on social media, Ephraim Tytell said, he received a reprimand from school administrators in Mountain Brook, a suburb of Birmingham.

“They proceeded to tell me that I’m making Mountain Brook look bad for uploading the video and sharing it and asked me to apologize to my teacher, which I refused to,” he told WIAT-TV. “The day after, he made our class, and our class only, put up our phones and he moved me from sitting in the back of the class to right next to him.”

First reported by the Birmingham-based Southern Jewish Life, the incident last month gained traction on social media. On Tuesday, the school system issued a statement saying the video and photos shared online “are not representative of the lesson” and no one tried to teach students how to do a Nazi salute.

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But, but, but....NAKED MICE!

[lame54]

1. Another case of...

You didn't see what you definitely saw

[JustAnotherGen]

3. The shameful gaslighting

Of Americans who are the targets of this behavior is ramping up.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. But but naked mice

And this is PRECISELY why Maus needs to be taught in classrooms and made available to students in libraries.

[Carlitos Brigante]

4. K&R! nt

[sarisataka]

5. This one picture

Conveys more information than that "lesson"



Does the teacher plan to inform the kids about D-Day by having them crawl across the football field while spraying it with machine-gun fire?

[Behind the Aegis]

7. EXACTLY!

Assuming that asshole even teaches about slavery, I am scared what "first person immersion" entails.

[Gore1FL]

17. I was remembering a different but similar picture I had seen and was thinking the same about it.

I saw your post, and it's perfect.

There is nothing wrong with talking about how perfectly OK symbols and words have been adopted and permanently redefined. That kind of lesson may do a lot of good in AL. But the approach re-enacting what society now finds offensive does little to aid that lesson and more to normalize that which has been rejected.

[tishaLA]

6. Our national regression is so disturbing

I know we've always had a huge number of racists, but they used to usually have the good sense to hide it from polite company and apologize when decent people caught them and called them out. Now the victims of racists are reprimanded for exposing it. Its absurd.

[Ilsa]

11. Hubby and I were talking about regression this morning, but

specifically on lack of appreciation by many younger adults for American values. Not nasty nationalism, but simply being ignorant about what truly makes the USA great: freedom of speech, separation of church and state, being a "melting pot" instead of racist, etc.There are very few places in the world for which I'd give up my US citizenship.

[Chainfire]

8. The student made them look bad by exposing their actions?

It sounds like some school system needs to be taking a good look at itself. A good philosophy is don't do things that make you look bad if your are outted...

The teacher was either a Nazi or an idiot. Which do you want teaching your kids? It looks like his bosses doubled-down on the clown's actions by attempting to punish the student.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. I wonder when the ADL will get involved?

[Hekate]

18. Soon, one would hope

I thought politicians and parents in red states wanted cameras in classrooms in case teachers offended them?

[sanatanadharma]

10. Society has no problem making kids's selves feel bad

Black, poor, female, Mexican, gay--- one's neighbors and society often teach and reinforce the idea that 'you are bad for having those feelings' or not trying hard enough or you are less worthy because of the wrappers of skin and nationalities.

A sane society should make people discomforted when they express affinity for racism, naxism, etc.

[yardwork]

20. I noticed that too...

[Mary in S. Carolina]

12. This student has a six figure lawsuit

against this teacher. This teacher is toast - my opinion.

[Solly Mack]

13. K&R

[cab67]

14. the same school district

decided to work with the Anti-Defamation League after students were caught drawing swastikas on themselves.

That lasted until parents in the district complained that the ADL program was too liberal.

That such a community exists so close to one of the epicenters of the modern civil rights movement is jarring, to say the least.


https://www.al.com/news/2021/06/mountain-brook-backtracks-on-anti-bias-training-after-parent-criticism-links-to-critical-race-theory.html

[Behind the Aegis]

21. Well that says a lot doesn't it?

Sounds as if this school has been down this road before which begs the question; how many incidents have occurred that WERE NOT reported?!

[paleotn]

15. Make them look bad? Now they look 100 times worse.

[LiberalFighter]

16. Poor reporting by AP

Did not identify the teacher or the school administrator.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. K&R