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There have been a few questions here in WikiAnswers asking if the story is true.

The BBC first reported the urban legend on 17 April 2007, but there are some versions of the story that go back to February 2007. The Times reported as fact "Schools drop Holocaust lessons to avoid offence" back on 2 April 2007:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article1600686.ece

Rather revealingly, there seems to be a muddle about the abbreviation U.K. (for United Kingdom), and in some versions of the story refer to the University of Kentucky!

That said, it appears some schools and teachers in predominantly Muslim areas shy away from the Holocaust and the Crusades.

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Individual schools decide such matters. It is reported that some schools in Muslim areas have stopped teaching the Holocaust.

A few schools in predominantly Muslim areas have chosen not to teach it, in order to avoid conflict with some Muslim parents. All this has of course been criticized.

Many people take a dim view of the fact that some of the leading Muslim groups in Britain boycott Holocaust Memorial Day.
The suggestion that the UK has removed the holocaust from its school curriculum is an urban legend. Please see the Related Question below.
The notion that the schools in the UK have stopped teaching the Holocaust is inaccurate. Please see the related question.

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