Some Washington, D.C. public school 7th graders “were assigned the rather unpatriotic task this week of comparing Adolf Hitler to former President George W. Bush. But now the school district wants you to know that such an intellectual exercise is not part of the official D.C. curriculum,” the Washington City Paper reports.
Students Asked to Compare Bush to Hitler
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