Classroom teachers and parents worried about how an upcoming requirement for high school students to learn about the Holocaust will be taught
As teachers in British Columbia gear up to meet a new requirement for Holocaust education in classrooms, how that content gets taught has deeply divided the union representing the province’s 50,000 teachers.– BC Teachers Against Antisemitism – raised concerns with colleagues belonging to a social-justice group partly funded by the union – the Anti-Oppression Educators Collective – about the group’s social-media posts.
The AOEC responded a week later assuring the teachers that its members are concerned about antisemitism and said “theis abhorrent.” The group went on to say the Jewish educators were “conflating Jewishness with Zionist political ideologies.” The letters came to light after news last week that a group of teachers called the Holocaust and Antisemitism Educators Association who applied to the union, the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation , for special funding to help develop a Holocaust curriculum were denied. Instead, they were told by their union that their goals could be met with groups already accredited with the union’s Provincial Specialist Associations , including the AOEC.
Repeated efforts to reach representatives of the AOEC were not successful. The AOEC’s website, as well as its Instagram and Facebook pages, were taken down after The Globe reached out with questions last week.
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