Posted on 04/28/2011 11:03:55 AM PDT by jazusamo
A public school district in Arizona is violating a new state law by continuing a radical La Raza studies program banned under the legislation because it segregates students by race, teaches disdain for American sovereignty and ignites racial hostility.
Last year Arizona’s legislature passed a measure (HB 2281) banning taxpayer-funded schools from offering classes that are designed for students of a particular race and promote resentment toward a certain ethnic group (in this case whites). However, the TucsonUnifiedSchool District, with a largely Hispanic population, has yet to comply with the law which took effect in January.
Students in elementary, middle and high school are still exposed to the biased ethnic studies curriculum which teaches kids that Mexicans are victims of a racist American society driven by the interests of middle and upper-class whites. Children also learn that the southwestern United States was taken from Mexicans because of the insatiable greed of the Yankee who acquired values from the corrupted ethos of western civilization, according to a Hispanic teacher who taught in the program.
Students are also told that California, Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Texas are really Aztlan, the ancient homeland of the Aztecs, and that the area rightfully belongs to their descendants, people of indigenous Mexican heritage. The curriculum engenders racial irresponsibility, demeans America’s civil institutions, undermines public servants, discounts any virtues in western civilization and teaches disdain for American sovereignty, according the history teacher who blew the whistle on the La Raza program.
In an effort to appease the area’s powerful Chicano community, the district—Arizona’s second largest—has proposed making courses in the controversial Mexican/Raza Studies program electives rather than the accredited core classes that they have been for years. A rowdy group of La Raza students refused the offer and stormed into this week’s school board meeting, where officials were scheduled to vote on the change, threatening to fight.
A practical riot ensued and the unruly students chained themselves to board members’ chairs, forcing school officials to cancel the regularly scheduled meeting at TucsonUnifiedSchool District headquarters. The protest was organized by a youth coalition called UNIDOS or united. If the district caves into the threats and doesn’t eliminate the decades-old La Raza program, it stands to lose millions of dollars in state funding even though the ban has been legally challenged in federal court.
Last fall a group of teachers in Tucson’s Mexican studies program filed a lawsuit claiming that eliminating the curriculum is unconstitutional and restricts free speech. In their complaint they also claim that students who take their Mexican ethnic courses score higher on standardizes tests, graduate from high school at higher rates, improve their overall grades and have better school attendance records.
After a thorough examination, the district’s own statisticians found that students in the Mexican studies program did not perform any better than those who didn’t take the classes. The findings led a local newspaper columnist to write that the “bogus arguments” for ethnic studies have finally been “debunked” and that the claims were the only meaningful rational for the controversial program’s existence.
“Students are also told that California, Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Texas are really Aztlan, the ancient homeland of the Aztecs, and that the area rightfully belongs to their descendants, people of indigenous Mexican heritage.”
I doubt there is an Aztec descendant among any of these people.
I agree and I’d wager there’s a number of illegals as students in Tucson.
>. Children also learn that the southwestern United States was taken from Mexicans because of the insatiable greed of the Yankee who acquired values from the corrupted ethos of western civilization, according to a Hispanic teacher who taught in the program. <
and thank God for those “yankees” who created a prosperous society instead of a sh*thole country like mexico where police and military officers are beheaded almost daily and drug cartels rule the land.
In the end, we paid $15 million, iirc for the land anyway.
Get over it. WE WON!
And Santa Ana was such a hero to the Mexicans and what an inspiration!
Mexican “heroes” are mostly thugs, rapists, gun dealers and murderers.
If they think Mexican culture is so superior, they are welcome to leave this country.
White families should insist on a course that describes Mexicans as freeloaders who couldn’t win a war and are racist in their insistence on teaching La Raza values and demeaning whites.
Seems only fair.
"chained themselves to board members’ chairs" really?
Ok.
If they like it there so much just shut off the lights, walk out and lock the door.
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does it surprise anyone that its Tucson??
Isn’t that the district that tried to have worse punishment for white students than minority students for the same infractions?
From what I’ve read about the Tucson School Dist it wouldn’t surprise me.
It’s hard to imagine any school district ignoring a state law whether they agree with it of not, it sounds like the students are running the district.
Santa Ana was such a Mexican hero that he retired to New York and helped to invent Chicklets chewing gum, that is, after multiple coup d’tats, ripping off the Mexican state, and being tried for treason.
Ping!
I’m afraid that will only be homeschooled. I can’t believe we handed our nation over without a fight.
You are dead wrong. The Mexicans invading USA are mostly Mestizos and Indians. Mestizos are mostly Indian blood meaning Aztec, Mayan and other Mexican tribes
Historically the Aztecs were centered around Mexico City and did not live in our South Western states. That is just pure fantasy on the part of the Mexican invaders. But they will say anything that white liberals might belive
They are now. Prior to that they were more Spanish.
Mexico is dumping it’s underclass on us. Plain and simple.
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