(JTA) — A high school teacher in France who was suspended for spending too much class time on the Holocaust was reinstated.
Catherine Pederzoli, 58, who teaches history in Nancy, near the German border, was suspended for four months last September after inspectors reported that she spent too much time teaching the Holocaust and organizing school trips to former concentration camps in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Pederzoli, who is Jewish, also was criticized for using the term Shoah instead of genocide.
District authorities requested an inspection into Pederzoli’s teaching practices following a protest by her students, who demanded that the number of people allowed to participate in school trips to concentration camps not be reduced as planned by school authorities, according to French reports.
Pederzoli was reinstated last week as a secondary school teacher, although at a different school in Nancy, according to reports.
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