By Adriana Daniel
Decades after the Holocaust, classrooms across the country are teaching about its impact.
In 2021, Governor Tony Evers signed Act 30, better known as the Holocaust education bill, into law. This made it mandatory that students be taught about the Holocaust once between fifth and eighth grade, and once again in high school.
With the signing of Act 30, Wisconsin became one of 22 states in the union to require some type of Holocaust education, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum...
...Professor Jeff Kleiman at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point worry is that educators aren't prepared to teach the complexities of the subject.
"It's another one of those unfunded mandates and unless there are people knowledgeable or are willing to seek out expert advice well fall into the plan of this is my lesson plans," Kleiman said.
Kleiman said he is seeing a trend between the drive for genocide studies in the classroom and an opposite reaction in the world.
"Holocaust denial has been on the upswing for the better part of a decade or more," Kleiman said. "The drive for Holocausts education have picked up parallel to the growth of Holocaust denial."
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