US Private Gifted school teaching 6th graders about Machiavelli sounds like a total hell hole

Stumbled on this story. The idea of teaching 12 year olds about "leadership" via Machiavelli gives me the willies.

The coverage I found seems to be very hyperbolic. On the other hand, it seems to me that if you got rid of all the exaggerations, this is still probably some kind of fucked up situation. I am quite ready to believe the community around this school has plenty of nazi-sympathy. It is alleging that schoolchildren were calling all jews "baby killers" because of the genocide in Gaza. It also appears somehow these children have conflated the concepts of being jewish and being israeli, which is a mainstream opinion promoted by the states of Israel and USA among others. This conflation is of course hostile when it is directed at jewish kids. Which is maybe a reason to avoid such conflations...

I read a few different articles covering the situation and I think the most info is found in this one: Posh Virginia private school that allegedly praised Hitler expelled three Jewish students who faced antisemitic bullying: complaint

As far as I can tell, the above image is what constitutes "praising hitler". It's the highest res picture I could find but unfortunately can't make out the writing which would probably help to understand just what these kids were thinking. It does look like a wacky hitler. Somehow at least 1 kid got the idea that hitler was a good "leader" and between the various adults who were teaching the class, emailing the newsletter etc, none of them thought better of this.

Text of actual complaint Vazquez-and-Roy-v.-Nysmith-School.-Virginia-Attorney-General-Office-of-Civil-RightsRedacted-1.pdf, specifically the parts which relate to the above image:

Maybe I shouldn't be posting drama from some 12 year olds.