Kimberlynn Jurkowski
Kimberlynn Jurkowski is the third-graders staff librarian at Watkins Elementary' school in Washington, D.C., instructed kids third graders to re-enact scenes From Holocaust, including asking them to dig ditches for mass graves and simulate shootings, one student was instructed to portray Hitler.[1]
It turns out she was a total fraud.
In 2013, Jurkowski forfeited a job as a school librarian in Hamilton Township, N.J., after a jury convicted her of fraud in 2013. Prosecutors said the city paid for Jurkowski to provide tutoring for her children but that she continued billing the district for nearly $24,000 for months after the tutoring had ended.[2]
In 2019, she was arraigned on an animal cruelty charge in 2019 after she left one of her Rottweilers outdoors in freezing winter temperatures. It came after several complaints of animal cruelty at the home.[2]
In 2020 she "promoted" antisemite Lois Farrakhan. A day after she quoted the Apartheid slur.
She also posted about the group BLM.
References
- ↑ Vimal Patel, Third-Graders Instructed to Re-enact Scenes From Holocaust, Principal Says, NY Times, Dec. 20, 2021.
A staff librarian was put on leave after students at an elementary school in Washington, D.C., were directed to simulate shootings and the digging of mass graves.
[“I want to acknowledge the gravity of this poor instructional decision,” the principal of Watkins Elementary School in Washington, D.C., said.]
A staff librarian at an elementary school in Washington, D.C., directed third graders to re-enact the Holocaust, including asking them to dig ditches for mass graves and simulate shootings, according to an email that the school’s principal sent to parents late Friday.
One student was instructed to portray Hitler, the email said.
The staff member leading the activity at Watkins Elementary School, in the Capitol Hill section of southeast Washington, also reportedly made antisemitic statements during the episode, Principal MScott Berkowitz said in the email.
The staff member has been placed on administrative leave while the matter is investigated, Mr. Berkowitz said. The episode has also been referred to the district’s Central Equity Response Team, which commonly responds to hate and bias incidents, Mr. Berkowitz said.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nicole Asbury, Librarian who made third-graders reenact the Holocaust was a fraud convict in N.J., Washington Post, December 21, 2021.
The Watkins Elementary School staffer who directed third-graders to reenact scenes from the Holocaust on Friday was convicted of two crimes in New Jersey. The staffer is librarian Kimberlynn Jurkowski, according to the parents of two children instructed to pretend like they were digging mass graves and dying in gas chambers.
Jurkowski forfeited a job as a school librarian in Hamilton Township, N.J., after a jury convicted her of fraud in 2013. Prosecutors said the city paid for Jurkowski to provide tutoring for her children but that she continued billing the district for nearly $24,000 for months after the tutoring had ended.
She was also arraigned on an animal cruelty charge in 2019 after she left one of her Rottweilers outdoors in freezing winter temperatures. The dog died. Police had responded to several complaints of animal cruelty at the home.