Been trying to avoid this story as it makes my blood boil.
I recall a semester or two at Pima back in the 70s.
Don’t recall anyone speaking in Spanish, much less being forced to learn in Spanish...unless you were in a language class.
In fact, such a thing would have been considered absurd then, no matter what Raul Grijalva thought about it.
Wow! Did I pick the wrong Post for today’s Ping? /rhet
I hear you, though. And your experience at Pima wasn’t because there weren’t that many Spanish/Mexican descent students in our schools. I look at my ‘72 Cortez High School yearbook and there are a lot of Garcias, Ramirezes, Gonzalezes, and others. Also a lot of Japanese and Italian, for what it’s worth.
But we understood that learning and speaking in English was the way to get ahead in our world. The LaRaza and MeCha activists hadn’t gotten a real foot-hold yet.
Oh well...I still don’t speak any Spanish.