Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

Student Katie Piranio told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Sublette
said during a Nov. 25 class that history books were inaccurate and Nazis
in World War II lacked the technology to kill millions of Jews.
Sublette did not immediately return a message left by The Associated
Press seeking comment.
The Review-Journal said she did not answer when a reporter reached
her Thursday and asked if she had denied the Holocaust happened.
Sublette said she was not in a position to respond and would have to talk
to her principal.
Sublette is a full-time gym teacher. The district says she was teaching a
30-minute weekly class designed to prepare students for life after high
school.
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I thought of Mr Veale, the principal of Kyneton High School, who I
appeared before in 1961 when Geography teacher Mr Glover sent me to
him for allegedly interrupting the class, which I did not – this time! Veale
kindly and calmly asked me to sit on a chair in his office while he was doing
some work at his desk. After about 5 minutes he monologued about
friendships after school, about life generally. ‘You’ll be lucky to have that
many friends in your life’, and he held up his open hand towards me.
‘Some you’ll have a beer with, and others you’ll play golf with. But
ultimately you’re alone in life’. There was not a word about my having done
something wrong in class. I remained in the chair until the bell rang for
recess. Veale then said, ‘I think you’d better get back to some work. Just
work and keep in mind what I said’.
What about the time of my dismissal from Victoria’s Department of
Education on the grounds of incompetence and disobedience in 1984?
Almost for a whole decade –at the end of which I founded the Adelaide
Institute and began this current venture – I was legally engaged to such an
extent it cost me my marriage and family.
Sometimes when doubt crosses my mind I recall that pure strangers saw me
in a better light than either the Education Department officers at Spring
Street who condemned my teaching ability or the crop of individuals who
hate independent thinkers. It was bad luck that my former principal at
Edenhope High School, John Collins – who had become a Staffing Officer
and did not feel threatened by my presence and continued to supported me
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