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Scenario

How to respond when students voice antisemitic stereotypes

I teach middle school and a student asked me why Jewish people think they are better than everyone else and I realized I had no idea how to address antisemitic assumptions in an age-appropriate way.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You are confronting your own unpreparedness to educate young people about prejudice you hoped they would not yet have absorbed.

Your guide for this
Juana
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Worth thinking about

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