A teacher at Mt. Eden High School has been placed on administrative leave following two months of complaints that he taught antisemitic conspiracy theories to students.
at Mt. Eden, was placed on leave last week following a school board meeting in which parents and students voiced their concerns over the material he was presenting in class.
"He said, ‘What if I came up and did the hail Hitler salute?’ He proceeded to actually do it and everyone gasped," she said.Ruchita Verma, a senior at Mt. Eden, said although she is not in Bens’s class, she did read the pamphlet and was upset. "At the board meeting we spoke up and weren't given clear action plans on what they're going to do," Verma said.
"This text is one of the most antisemitic texts in existence, and it seems like this teacher was giving a master class on antisemitism to students at Mt. Eden High School," Drenick said.
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