From today’s Boston Globe:
Thirteen history teachers in the Newton Public Schools are expected to miss some class time this week in order to gather documents for a public records request filed by an advocacy organization that has accused the district of anti-Israel bias in its high-school world history curriculum.
The Watertown nonprofit Americans for Peace and Tolerance has submitted 16 public records requests to the school system so far in 2018.
also from the article…
In December 2017, the Jewish Community Relations Council and Massachusetts Board of Rabbis issued a statement calling Jacobs and his organization “purveyors of hatred and division” after they said Americans for Peace and Tolerance defamed a rabbi whose temple hosted an interfaith event where Muslims were invited to speak.
In 2013, state education officials investigated a complaint from a Newton parent who claimed the history curriculum included anti-Semitic and anti-Israel materials. The investigation found the curriculum complied with the law.
APT, your disruption of our children’s education and obvious commitment to the community has really opened my eyes and made me sympathetic to your cause! Very strong PR work.
Perhaps I was wrong in my criticism of the Likud Party and its extremely honest and selfless first family. Bibi 2019!
Michael: I’m not sure the folks with Americans for Peace and Tolerance understand irony, so the point of your comment may be lost on them. On the other hand they do call themselves “Americans for Peace and Tolerance,” so perhaps they do.
Greg, I think the irony and point of my comment was lost on absolutely everybody who read it, judging by the 11-0 rout in the likes department.
Thanks for nothing, William Strunk! I want my 10 bucks back.