Children entering Auschwitz
PHOTO: Holocaust.com
Here are the facts reported by the victim.
He was physically abused by members of the Smithfield High School football team, the subject of antisemitic verbal abuse, and sprayed with a material to reenact a Nazi gas chamber.
The boys who allegedly did it were not dismissed from the football team or suspended from school.
The students who abused the students did not miss a down.
A little historical lesson — The SS and their accomplices murdered approximately 1.5 million Jewish children, thousands of Roma (Gypsy) children, German children who had mental or physical disabilities, and Polish children.
On arrival at the death camps, the majority of children (usually under the age of 12) were sent directly to the gas chambers. Although Jewish adolescents (aged 13-18) were often not gassed immediately, but selected for forced labour, their long-term survival was rare, as most died from exhaustion and disease.
The children involved in the incident deserve better than a free pass. They needed to be educated about the atrocities and decency, paid a penalty, but maybe it is too late for them and their parents.
The failure by the School Committee, the Superintendent, the Principal, and the Football Coach is catastrophic. Unforgivable. Their failure defines the incompetence and de facto acceptance of the incident.
The Remedy
The superintendent, the principal, and the coach should all resign.
No member of the school committee should even contemplate running for reelection.
The football season should end now. Everyone in Smithfield needs a history lesson.
It was a teaching moment when the abuse took place.
It is now an episode of failure for the Town of Smithfield.
It is time for accountability.
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