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Social Studies Teacher Sues Local Bergen County District Over Suspension For Hitler Assignments Social Studies Teacher Sues Local Bergen County District Over Suspension For Hitler Assignments
Social Studies Teacher Sues Local Bergen County District Over Suspension For Hitler Assignments A Bergen County grade-school social studies teacher who was indefinitely suspended over assignments about Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany claims the district superintendent told him that he’d upset “Jewish people” in town and then ordered him to “fix” it. In a lawsuit filed against the Woodcliff Lake School District, Robert Welsh of Park Ridge says he was made a “scapegoat” amid complaints from parents because he’s a “socially conservative Christian in a community with a large Jewish population.” Welsh, 53, wrote a letter to the parents explaining why he considered the lesson necessary and ap…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
'Hitler Was Right': Anti-Semitic Graffiti Scrawled On NJ School Bathroom Stall, Police Say 'Hitler Was Right': Anti-Semitic Graffiti Scrawled On NJ School Bathroom Stall, Police Say
'Hitler Was Right': Anti-Semitic Graffiti Scrawled On NJ School Bathroom Stall, Police Say An investigation is underway after anti-Semitic drawings and comments were discovered on the bathroom stalls of a South Jersey middle school, authorities said. A swastika and a comment about Adolf Hitler were found Thursday and Friday on a boys' bathroom stall door at Marlton Middle School, Evesham Township police said on Facebook. The words, “H*tler was right,” were scrawled on the door, according to a tweet from Stop Antisemitsim.org. Nauseating - “H*tler was right” graffiti, a swastika and a stick figure labeled “Jew” were found at a New Jersey area Middle School (Marlton). — StopAn…

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by Nicole Acosta
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Nutley HS Official Suspended After Telling Madison Students Hitler Was 'Good Leader': Report Nutley HS Official Suspended After Telling Madison Students Hitler Was 'Good Leader': Report
Nutley HS Official Suspended After Telling Madison Students Hitler Was 'Good Leader': Report The Nutley Board of Education suspended the high school's athletic director for public remarks he made comparing Martin Luther King to Adolf Hitler, News 12 New Jersey reported.  Joe Piro made the remarks at a student assembly held at Madison High School, during which Piro described Hitler as a "good leader" with "bad moral character and intentions."  Madison Superintendent of Schools Mark Schwarz said in a letter to parents sent shortly after the presentation in mid-March that the material had not been reviewed beforehand. Schwarz apologized in the letter and said material would…

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by Paul Milo
Schools
SUP'T: Morris County HS Speaker Told Students Hitler Was 'Good Leader' SUP'T: Morris County HS Speaker Told Students Hitler Was 'Good Leader'
SUP'T: Morris County HS Speaker Told Students Hitler Was 'Good Leader' A good leader with bad moral character and intentions. That's how a guest speaker described Hitler to a room full of Madison High School student athletes over the weekend, NJ.com reports. The speaker was not identified by Superintendent Mark Schwarz in a letter co-signed by three other district officials sent to parents, nor was the presentation screened in advance, he said. Schwartz called the presentation “unnecessarily provocative and insensitive," the news outlet said. The Saturday assembly was aimed at promoting “positive leadership values and a culture of sportsm…

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by Cecilia Levine