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Jericho Board asks: County observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day Is PD course a bad 'SEED'? BY GEORGE HABER
Legislator Drucker pictured with Chabad of Mineola’s Rabbi Anchelle Perl outside the Theodore Roosevelt Executive & Legislative Building on Thursday, Jan. 27. Nassau County Legislator Arnold W. Drucker (D - Plainview) joined religious leaders and his colleagues in government on Thursday, Jan. 27 to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. At sundown, the dome of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive & Legislative Building was illuminated yellow in accordance with the United Nations General Assembly observance of the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camps.
“On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the victims of the systemic, state-sponsored genocide in which 6 million Jewish men, women, and children and 11 million more innocent people were slaughtered,” Legislator Drucker said. “Let us honor their memory by recommitting ourselves to educating future generations about the evil atrocities that occurred, and by pledging to confront bigotry, ignorance and hatred wherever it continues to lurk.”
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A controversial professional development program for teachers sparked strong criticism from Jericho School Board members at the monthly meeting Jan. 20th. The program, taken by some Jericho teachers and taught to middle school students as an elective, is based on The National SEED Project on Inlusive Curriculum created by Peggy McKintosh of Wellesley College, a feminist activist who is a proponent of the concept of “white privilege,” which some critics have called antiwhite racism. Jericho Schools Superintendent Hank Grishman and a teacher who has taken the professional development course and spoke with students who have gone through it, said the course, called “Seedlings,” has no racist overtones, and teaches diversity, tolerance and acceptance. Board newcomers Jennifer Vartanov and Sam Perlman argued that any link to the parent organization of the SEED
Project shoudl be eliminated. Grishman said he agreed it could be appropriate to change he name of the program, making it a “home grown” cross-cultural communication oriented course. One parent said he thought the course was “unnecessary” since the Jericho School District is already a multicultural once in which students routinely show their fellow students “diversity, acceptances and tolerance.” Grishman added that he has attended classes and found no evidence of bias toward any group. In his Superintendent’s Report, Grishman said the current enrollment in ther school district is 3185 students. This is the largest enrollment in the district’s history. He also noted that the mandatory mask wearing of students and faculty has resulted in a relatively low absenteeism rate, and that the district is waiting on delivery of two more shipments of Covid test kits for distribution to families as well as staff and faculty.
Two die while shoveling
The Syosset Fire Department and the Nassau County Police Department responded to two fatal medical events during the snow storm on Saturday, January 29. According to police, they responded to a home on Barbara Drive after a 75-year-old man collapsed while shoveling snow. The Syosset Fire Department responded, performed CPR and transported the victim to North Shore Syosset Hospital where he was pro-
nounced dead at 3:09pm by hospital staff. At 10:38 p.m. police responded to a home on Belmont Circle where a 53-year-old man had been found unresponsive in the snow with a shovel next to him. The Syosset Fire Department responded and transported the victim to North Shore Syosset Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 11:19 p.m. by hospital staff.
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