Superintendent of heavily Jewish Maryland county admits 'misstep' in handling Nazi swastika incident

Superintendent of heavily Jewish Maryland county admits 'misstep' in handling Nazi swastika incident

Thomas Taylor, superintendent of Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, admitted that the district erred when it failed to identify a Nazi swastika found at a school as antisemitic when it communicated with the community and pledged to meet with Jewish clergy, who demanded action against Jew-hatred in the district."The message to the school community should have explicitly identified the swastika as an antisemitic symbol and named the nat…