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Teacher, Principal Suspended Amid Investigation Of School Project On Hitler’s ‘Accomplishments' Teacher, Principal Suspended Amid Investigation Of School Project On Hitler’s ‘Accomplishments'
Teacher, Principal Suspended Amid Investigation Of School Project On Hitler’s ‘Accomplishments' A Tenafly school teacher and principal are both suspended while their district superintendent investigates why a student’s presentation of the “accomplishments” of Adolph Hitler was assigned, as well as why concerns about it were ignored. A preliminary review of the 5th-grade Maugham Elementary School assignment “indicates that the curriculum and learning standards were not appropriately implemented,” said Tenafly Schools Supt. Shauna C. DeMarco (photo above). “An attempt to individualize the project resulted in the student receiving misguided instruction from the teacher,” DeMarco noted in…

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by Jerry DeMarco