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Juniper Russo posted to Facebook that she withdrew her eighth-grader from the class after the teacher wrote an English translation of the Hebrew name for God on the whiteboard and told students, “If you want to know how to torture a Jew, make them say this out loud,” according to the post.
“This name is traditionally not spoken out loud, and is traditionally only written in the Torah,” Russo wrote. "My daughter felt extremely uncomfortable hearing a teacher instruct her peers on ‘how to torture a Jew’ and told me when she came home from school that she didn’t feel safe in the class.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/c...antisemitic-comments/ar-AATxx67?ocid=msedgntpRusso said she has also reported the incident to the Anti-Defamation League.
Russo wrote on Facebook that her daughter enrolled in the Bible class because other electives were not accessible to her because of a disability. Her daughter was uncomfortable answering questions on assignments such as, “Do you read the Bible at home?” because she did not want to be singled out as Jewish, Russo wrote.
Russo said that in addition to the antisemitic comments, the teacher taught the Genesis creation story as a factual story of how the universe was formed.
that whole Genesis story thing isn't so unusual around these parts... H's own grandbabies were exposed to that shit, too. I'm happy to report they've since learned better.