In Atlanta, Jewish parents criticized the school district’s statement on “the violence facing children and families in the Middle East” for never using the word “terrorism.”
In Los Angeles, a Muslim organization condemned public school officials for “not acknowledging the dispossession of the Palestinian people,” after a “We Stand With Israel” message was posted on the district’s official website.
And in New York, public school leaders have released a wide-ranging patchwork of memos that have often prompted the same response from different factions of parents and teachers: outrage.
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Public Schools Struggle to Say the Right Thing About the Israel-Hamas War
- by: Troy Closson
- 2023-10-27
- Source:
New York Post
- 10/28/2023
Ruined side-street in Shingal (Sinjar) following war with the Islamic State. by Levi Meir Clancy is licensed under Unsplash unsplash.com
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