Elaine Wix’s AP Psychology and AP European history students took part in an extra credit assignment to wear a sign of David, and teachers and students were instructed to harass those wearing one. The assignment overlaps and was applicable to both subjects, to show the effects of Nazi anti-jewish policy, and to further explain how apt others are to harass those different when given the point.

“I learned that people will discriminate given the opportunity,” senior and participant Kourtney Ruth said.

Harassment ranged from mean jokes to students taking seats of participants, throwing things in their way and making them pick it up and writing numbers on participants arm’s similar to what Nazi officers would do in concentration camps.

While students and faculty were instructed to harass students, nothing got out of hand,  yet the students not only earned a free 100 on a major grade, they also got a small taste of how discrimination feels.

“Being discriminated, even in a mock setting, isn’t a good feeling,” junior and participant Alyssa Mathews said, “it gets to your soul,”.

The extra credit assignment only lasted two days, but changed the way many see the world around them.