The head of a prestigious Atlanta private school has defended the decision to assign Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf for summer reading by comparing it to the school’s creation of a “gender inclusive restroom” three years ago.
Suzanna Jemsby of the Galloway School wrote in an Aug. 20 blog post that just as she agreed to “intentionally relabel a unisex restroom at the front of the school as a gender inclusive restroom,” so that students “who did not identify as cisgender” had a bathroom “that would respect their identity,” the school librarian consented when a mostly Jewish group of students asked in May to read Hitler’s autobiography.
Jemsby wrote that she couldn’t “argue” with the teenagers’ desire to read the book, because she had done so in college and it “led to fascinating discourse about leadership.”
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