School Assignment: Was Holocaust a Hoax?

A California school district asked its eighth-grade language-arts students to consider if the Holocaust was a “propaganda tool that was used for political and monetary gain.” The Rialto Unified School District assignment requested an argumentative essay about whether or not the Holocaust "was an actual event in history" or "merely a political scheme." Of the three sources provided for use, one called gas chambers a "hoax" and the entire genocide a "profitable myth." The school district says it will revise the assignment, but that no parents or teachers had complained about it.