I'm a school governor, so I get information about the curriculum before it becomes practice.

England HAS NOT taken the Holocaust out of the National Curriculum. I confirmed it my head teacher, it is definately IN the curriculum, as is 'The Diary of Anne Frank' on the preferred reading list. I might add that almost half of her school pupils are Muslim. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own curriculum where teaching about the Holocaust is included but not compulsory.

A FEW schools have chosen to concentrate on other events in history, much in the same way that the Highland Clearances or Irish Potato Famine and mass exodus are not widely taught in English schools.

LTS