Actually, Allen, in the US, this same myth has been circulating about
the University of Kentucky (ostensibly because some American mistook the
domain name .uk for that rather than for United Kingdom). I read an
article about it in the New York Time this past weekend.
Chris Green
York U.
Toronto, Canada
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Allen Esterson wrote:
The origin of the circulating Urban Legend that the Holocaust was being
dropped from the school curriculum in England seems to have been the
misrepresentation of an article in the London Times:
The Times February 9, 2008
How internet turned 'fact' into a global lie
Alexandra Frean, Education Editor
A bogus but persistent rumour that British schools are dropping the
Holocaust from the curriculum to avoid offending Muslims forced the
Government to issue an official denial this week.
The rumours appear to stem from an article I wrote in The Times on April 2
last year which amounted to only 164 words.
The speed and ferocity with which this rumour turned into a "faux fact" as
it spread around the globe, via an orchestrated viral e-mail, provides a
compelling and cautionary tale of the power of the internet to inform and
misinform...
http://tinyurl.com/33jjya
Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
http://www.esterson.org
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