Posted on 06/29/2010 7:27:44 AM PDT by bs9021
Raising Arizona
Bethany Stotts, June 29, 2010
Earlier this month the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Board of Education requested that the district Superintendent integrate discussions of Arizona’s recently-passed laws on immigration and ethnic studies into the public school curriculum. The LAUSD “school board wants all public school students in the city to be taught that Arizona’s new immigration law is un-American,” wrote Jana Winter for Fox News on June 2.
In response to Winter’s article, the board stated that they had “directed the Superintendent to ensure that LAUSD civics and history classes discuss the recent laws enacted in Arizona in the context of the American values of unity, diversity, and Equal Protection for all.” Therefore,
“This very important piece of current events would be taught in our classrooms along with a number of controversial periods and laws which are a part of our history and are currently being taught including: slavery; Jim Crow laws and segregation; reservations and residential schools for Native Americans; The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882; the anti-Irish racism in the 19th century; racism against immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe during the 20th century; anti-Semitism; internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II and the Mexican Repatriation Program during the 1930s.”
In other words, the LAUSD BoE would prefer that students there were taught that the Arizona law is morally equivalent to these historical events....
(Excerpt) Read more at academia.org ...
Will they also be taught about Mexico’s draconian illegal alien laws? No? Didn’t think so.
I think Arizona should respond to this with wit. That the State Board of Education should suggest, but not require, that Arizona schools teach that California is,
“A den of iniquity, where bad government and perversion reign. Where the people are foolish and of low moral character, and seek their own torment and destruction by engaging in unwholesome and grotesque behavior, while despising the oppressed few who seek only prosperity and success for their children. Californians should be shunned by Arizonans, for theirs is the path to ruin. Nor should the Arizona State border be open to their impoverished refugees, when their self punishment for their iniquities comes to fruition.”
Still waiting for the wit...
Ping!
They should also be taught about those glorious Aztec ancestors who destroyed more civilized tribes and sliced out their beating hearts to be offered to their pagan gods— 70,000 or so alone in one giant orgy of blood letting in the late 15th century to dedicate one of their temples.
How culturally insensitive of you. Don’t you know that we are supposed to only examine the many and myriad ways in which the Aztecs were in tune with their environment?
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