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Teaching the Holocaust to young children : 

Teaching the Holocaust to young children Rationale: better for them to learn it in a controlled setting than on the playground This is “curricular creep” – teachers choosing to introduce topics normally taught in higher grades because they find them personally interesting or important Can we? Yes. Should we? No. Grade school children can’t understand it or are overwhelmed by it. Schweber, S. (2008) What happened to their pets? TCR 110(10)