Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

I've just come across this. What?

The only possible explanation I can think of is the story that one single school in a predominately Muslim area chose not to include the Holocaust as an essay topic at GCSE level (14-16 year old). Please bear in mind that schools throughout the UK get to choose which specific modules they teach for the exam. I did World Powers in the 20th Century for my GCSE - my friend at a different school did Tudors & Stuarts (British Middle Ages) and got exactly the same qualification.

In this case it was decided that it wasn't reasonable to set a question that would count towards their final grade if it contradicted what they had been taught at home and in the mosque. Not when there were plenty of other topics that could be selected that would not anger the community, disrupt classes, and which would allow pupils to get the qualifications their intelligence deserved.

In the same way schools in the Bible Belt would probably protest if pupils had to sit an exam where the only acceptable responses involved reference to evolution.

It was nothing to do with cowardice. It was an isolated educational decision.