rt115+Holocaust+Essay

=Why Can't Sixth Graders Learn About the Holocaust? = = = =Have you ever heard of the Holocaust? It's a period where Jews were killed, everyday. Six million innocent Jews were killed. Who was responsible for this barbaric act, you say? Adolf Hitler. We should learn about this event so that kids won't be like the cruel Adolf Hitler. But parents and teachers think that the stories and pictures might be too gruesome for kids our age. That is not true! Not true at all! We sixth graders are mature enough to handle the Holocaust and to learn about it. I believe that the Holocaust should be taught to sixth graders. = = = =__If we don't learn about the Holocaust, we will be a month dumber.__ Knowledge is power. If kids learn about it, kids are least likely to repeat that in the future. We should also just learn about it... just to learn! Kids have to be informed about what happened in the past. It will also help us kids think of new ideas of how to prevent bad events that are happening today. Now, who do you think is the best teacher? Your math teacher? Your science teacher? Your reading and language arts teacher? Well, if you guessed any of these... you're wrong. History. History is the best teacher. Now, what do most of these teachers use to teach? History! Now, like in the poem __Alphabet of Evil__, even if six million Jews died gruesomely, this will help kids implant into themselves that they should never do anything like this. = = = =Everyone knows that prejudice is bad. __Prejudice is when you criticize others based on their religion, looks, race, or attitude. Remember when black people had separate places then white places, just because of their looks. Prejudice right there.__ Now, what is the best way to teach kids how to not have prejudice against others? By teaching them about the Holocaust! __How many kids have prejudice in school? A lot of them! This will help them stop. Then, everyone would be nice to everyone else. What a wonderful world!__ Even if the images //might // traumatize the kids, the Holocaust will teach kids to not be like Adolf Hitler, who I think is the worst man in history. = = = =__Now who is Adolf? Adolf was the one who imprisoned the Jews and killed 6 million of them. It was all his idea. He was even thinking about ruling the world (I think he read too many comics)! If kids learn about him, they will not want to be like him. Just think of Adolf Hitler being an anti-role model. Kids won't want to be like the criminal he is__. I mean, an American soldier called Leon Bass could not believe how people could be like the walking dead. He couldn't believe his eyes. The Jews looked like they were just bones. People were all clutched together just to keep themselves from falling. Kids have to learn not to //ever // treat other people that way. Also, Maud Dahme, a survivor of the Holocaust, said, "People living in the same country don't respect each other. We are all the same inside." __Kinda like M&N's. Different colors on the outside, same on the inside.__ Adolf Hitler //obviously // didn't believe that, but kids should believe it now so they won't be like him. = = = =If sixth graders learn about the Holocaust, we would be more grateful. Jewish people in the concentration camps had so little freedom and food. Us kids have so much of //everything//. Most kids would think, "Hey, I'm treated like a king!" They would show more respect and be more patient to their parents because of this. Or, if their grandparents were at concentration camps, they would show even more respect, and help them in every way they can. Even in the Devil's Arithmetic, people had to "gather" or "steal" food and clothes because they were so hungry and sad and sick. What would be a better way to make kids be more grateful? Holocaust would be the best teacher for this. = = = =Now you know why. Why sixth graders should learn about the Holocaust. It's the //best// teacher for so many things! If we learn about it, kids will recognize that it is a bad thing and they won't have prejudice against certain groups or races. So many people died, 6 //million// died, and want us to learn something from it. It's never too early to learn values like compassion and respect towards our fellow human beings. In today's connected diverse global community, these values will help us sixth graders make the world a better place as we grow up. We should learn at an early age that we must have respect for what they wanted to pass down to others. We sixth graders must learn about the Holocaust. It will help us throughout our whole entire lives. = = = = =