School District Not Liable for Nazi-Jew 'Role Playing' Lesson
School District Not Liable for Nazi-Jew 'Role Playing' Lesson
(CN) - A Texas school district is not liable after a bizarre Holocaust role-playing lesson ended with students playing Jews suffering injuries while taking orders from ersatz Nazis, the 5th Circuit ruled.
Andrew Yara, of Ochiltree County, sued the Perryton Independent School District in May 2012. Perryton is approximately 120 miles northeast of Amarillo.
Yara claimed that students wearing red ribbons "must do everything school faculty or other students tell them to, including picking up other students' trash, being taken outside and sprayed with water hoses, bear-crawling across the hot track, carrying other students' books, and even carrying other students," the complaint alleged.
"Engaging in this exercise was compulsory, with it constituting 60% of a major test grade for students in their World History Class, and any student who did not do everything they were told were receive a failing grade."
Yara said he was seriously injured when a classmate jumped onto his back while he was carrying another student. He said the school showed "deliberate indifference" to his constitutional right to human dignity by "subjecting him to a process that was designed to expose him to unwarranted shame, indignity, and virtually certain injury."
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