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A California school district is under fire for giving Grade 8 students a homework assignment that questions whether or not the Holocaust was real.

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Officials at Rialto Unified School District have reportedly received death threats since the San Bernadino Sun newspaper exposed the assignment this past weekend.

Last week, the Los Angeles Chapter of the national Anti-Defamation League was made aware of the 18-page critical thinking essay assignment, which asked English/language arts students to consider the arguments about whether the systematic killing of more than six million Jews was an “actual event” or a “propaganda tool that was used for political and monetary gain,” KTLA Channel 5 reports.

The district initially defended the assignment designed to help students “evaluate the quality of evidence made by advocates or opponents of an issue,” saying parents had not complained about it to date.