A St. Paul teacher is under fire after she made an offensive joke about the Holocaust.
According to Hazel Park Middle School Academy officials, the 8th grade English teacher sent an e-mail titled ‘Torture Time!’ via interoffice mail to alert other employees about a Holocaust simulation she was planning for her class next week.
In it, she wrote the Feb. 13 exercise was going to be a ‘day of sheer pleasure for the staff being themselves as Nazi Officers and becoming Adolfs.’
“She was trying to be sarcastic and amusing,” said the school’s principal Coleman McDonough.
It further explained the students would wear yellow stars, similar to those Jewish people were forced to wear by Nazi Germany during World War II.
The e-mail stated the reason for the simulation was to give ‘staff need[ed] stress relief and entertainment.’