"This could have been a teachable moment for the teacher had they been prepared to ask why are you doing this?" Bruck added. The fact that the Montreal incident happened in front of a teacher was particularly "shameful," she said. Marcy Bruck is the communications director for The Foundation for Genocide Education, which is based in Montreal. The education is definitely lacking," said the foundation's director of communications, Marcy Bruck. "There's no understanding of why this is hateful, what these gestures mean. Last year, in Toronto, a local school board reported three instances of antisemitism in one month, including two Grade 6 students who gave a Nazi salute to their Jewish teacher. The Montreal-based Foundation for Genocide Education said incidents like this are not that rare. The school would not comment on the measures due to privacy concerns, a school spokesperson said in an e-mail. Awareness has already been raised with the group in order to make them understand the content of the gesture and its meaning," the statement went on to say, without saying which measures were taken. "As soon as the administration was informed last week, the necessary measures were quickly taken with the students and the substitute teacher. In an email, a spokesperson said it "deplores" the incident depicted in the video. She saw, she was there," she said.ĬTV News reached out to the Centre de services scolaire des Samares, which oversees the school, to respond to the concerns raised by the family. It shouldn't be up to me to tell the school. Somebody told the teacher, she was there and she saw it. "It wasn't like this happened at lunch outside. The mother is speaking out to not only denounce what she saw, but to call out the teacher and the school for exercising poor judgment. And since there are two pianos in the school, some kids even play the tune on the piano," the student said. "Most of the boys do the Nazi salutes and sing the Erika song. The student said the laissez-faire approach to the students' behaviour goes beyond the classroom. "The teacher didn't really do anything to stop it," the student said, adding that a resource teacher only came to the class to complain about the noise. Her daughter explained that she believed the students played the song to be "edgy." "This was a very specific, hateful display and she did nothing so that, to me, was very shocking." "She still has a duty to keep the class under control and she failed," the mother said. The student said her teacher is away for medical reasons and it was a substitute teacher who was in charge of the class on the day of the incident. The video was taken down from TikTok, according to the student who posted it. The short video clip does not show the teacher engaging with the students who are giving the salute and putting their fingers on their faces indicating a Hitler mustache. In the 10-second video clip, a teacher can be seen at the front of the classroom. The student who recorded the video and her mother spoke to CTV News on the condition that they not be identified out of fear of reprisal from others for speaking out. "It was more shocking to think that the teacher was just walking around in the video, not addressing it in any way, shape or form." "I didn't believe what I was seeing at first because it is shocking to see something like that," said the mother of the student who recorded the incident. The song was composed in the 1930s and was often played for German troops during the Second World War. standing on their chairs surrounded by other students while playing the song Erika on YouTube. A mother says her daughter's school north of Montreal failed to act when students were filmed giving a Hitler salute while playing a Nazi marching song in the classroom.Ī video of the incident was posted on TikTok showing five Grade 7 students at École secondaire des Chutes in Rawdon, Que.
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