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It is likely most schools in West Virginia already teach students about the Holocaust. Still, making that a requirement under the law cannot hurt. Events during recent months may lead some to question whether the lesson needs to be reinforced.
Delegate Josh Higginbotham, R-Putnam, plans to introduce a bill requiring that public middle and high schools provide instruction on genocides such as the Holocaust. His bill should be enacted.
Students "need to learn what hatred and bigotry will do if we don't learn our history," Higginbotham said of his proposal.
Indeed they do. In the process, they need to understand no one is immune from the consequences of violent bigotry. Though Nazi Germany killed an estimated 6 million Jews, many other classes of people were targeted, too.
And, though the Holocaust was the 20th century's worst genocide, students need to know such atrocities continue -- to this day.