'Beat the Jew' game prompts high schools to increase tolerance education
A high school where some students played the Internet game "Beat the Jew" will receive a new tolerance curriculum, officials said.
The annoucement comes five months after officials a La Quinta High School in Riverside County disciplined students for playing the game.
"Administrators of the La Quinta High School and Desert Sands Unified School District have accepted Jewish Federation of Palm Springs and Desert Area’s offer for Anti-Bias Education, to be delivered by the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) “A World of Difference” Institute," said Bruce Landgarten, chief executive of the federation, in a statement. "We applaud the Unified Districts for their commitment in this issue and appreciate ADL’s partnership in this project."
Other school districts in that region were also to get the training, Landgarten said.