Teacher, principal on leave after student s project on Hitler in New Jersey town
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The principal and a teacher at Maugham Elementary School in Tenafly are on administrative leave after a student wrote a biography glorifying Adolf Hitler. That student s work was then displayed in the school hallway for weeks.
The assignment included that student dressing up as Hitler as well. It s appalling, it should ve been stopped the minute this girl game to school, resident Shimon Avrahami said.
The fifth-grade project caught the attention of local leaders who called on the board of education to take action.
Fifth-graders at Maugham Elementary School in Tenafly, N.J., were tasked to write about the accomplishments of notable people and to dress up as their selected person.