RUSH HOUR: Parents upset over Hitler-themed homework Parents at a middle school in Gurnee, Illinois are upset after their kids received a controversial Hitler-themed assignment. One mother said she was “flabbergasted” after she found SpongeBob SquarePants with swastikas in her son’s language arts homework online, Arrayreported. Kelly Masterton told Array her eighth grade son, Michael, was given the assignment at Woodland Middle School last week called “If You Give Hitler a Country” modelled after the children’s book, “If you give a mouse a cookie.” The assignment had a cartoon-like “My Little Pony” in a Nazi uniform saluting over a map of Europe. The students were instructed to ... Continue reading... http://www.news.com.au/national/rus...d/news-story/274db22c11f4b5440396a57ec36d32b4
Nazi-themed cartoon assignment upsets middle school parents 11 Dec 2017 Parents are raising questions about a controversial homework assignment about Hitler at a suburban Illinois school. "Everyone in the class was given the paper and it tells you all the directions and requirements," Michael Masterton, an 8th grader at Woodland Middle School told WGN. He said students in his language arts class were given the assignment this week called “If You Give Hitler a Country,” with instructions to “create a comic strip for little kids that exemplifies Europe’s appeasement towards Hitler.” Michael’s mother, Kelly Masterton, said she was “flabbergasted” when she saw the assignment. He turned in comic strips featuring ... http://fox43.com/2017/12/11/nazi-themed-cartoon-assignment-upsets-middle-school-parents/
Nazi-themed cartoon assignment upsets suburban parents 7 Dec 2017 Parents are raising questions about a controversial homework assignment about Hitler at a suburban school. "Everyone in the class was given the paper and it tells you all the directions and requirements," said Michael Masterton, an 8th grader at Woodland Middle School in Gurnee. He said students in his language arts class were given the assignment this week called “If You Give Hitler a Country,” with instructions to “create a comic strip for little kids that exemplifies Europe’s appeasement towards Hitler.” Michael’s mother, Kelly Masterton, said she was “flabbergasted” when she saw the assignment. He turned in comic strips featuring ... http://wgntv.com/2017/12/07/nazi-themed-cartoon-assignment-upsets-suburban-parents/
