GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — The Wisconsin Legislature is considering a bill that would add mandatory lessons on the Holocaust to the curriculum in Wisconsin Schools.
Eric Conn, associate director of teaching and learning in the Green Bay Area Public School District, says the holocaust is widely covered in Green Bay Schools.
“We have it covered in a number of different places in our social studies classes,” Conn told WTAQ. “In most of our classes it’s brought up from a historical lens, so the context of World War 2.”
Holocaust education in Green Bay Schools begins in the 6th grade, and continues from there.
“In 10th grade we have a US and World Affairs course,” Conn said. “And then in 11th grade it comes up in our Diversity Studies class and in Modern US History.”
The holocaust is also a subject in the school’s Advanced Placement history classes.
State Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills), the plan’s lead author, says the idea is to make sure that young people learn about the Holocaust and have an understanding of the hate that drove it.
