In November, two teachers at the Citizens of the World Charter School in Los Angeles were suspended and subjected to an investigation after they made social media posts about giving lessons to first graders on the genocide in Palestine.
“LOL but I did a lesson on the genocide in Palestine today [with] my first graders,’” wrote one. “My fav was a kid who was like ‘What if they just gave the land back to Palestine and find somewhere else to live,’” she added.
Upon suspending the teachers, the school’s executive director Melissa Kaplan condemned the posts and their reference to genocide.
“Land of the free”. Freedom to be complicit in propaganda, or to be ostracised by the entire nation – even when it’s divided over politics.