Posted on 04/30/2010 6:49:06 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
After making national headlines for a new law on illegal immigrants, the Arizona Legislature sent Gov. Jan Brewer a bill Thursday that would ban ethnic studies programs in the state that critics say currently advocate separatism and racial preferences.
After making national headlines for a new law on illegal immigrants, the Arizona Legislature passed a bill Thursday that would ban ethnic studies programs in the state that critics say currently advocate separatism and racial preferences.
The bill, which passed 32-26 in the state House, had been approved by the Senate a day earlier. It now goes to Gov. Jan Brewer for her signature.
The new bill would make it illegal for a school district to teach any courses that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, promote resentment of a particular race or class of people, are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or "advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals."
The bill stipulates that courses can continue to be taught for Native American pupils in compliance with federal law and does not prohibit English as a second language classes. It also does not prohibit the teaching of the Holocaust or other cases of genocide.
Schools that fail to abide by the law would have state funds withheld.
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GO AZ Fight On.
i may have to move to AZ
Getting prouder and prouder of my (adopted) home state.
...good!...like women’s studies, ethnic studies are a waste of taxpayer money and a rip off of student’s tuition money...they’re worthless degrees.
Why are tax payer dollars being used to pay teachers of such useless subjects? Sack all teachers of these stupid “studies” and send them to San Francisco.
Wow, talk about a ROLL!
Go AZ!
Let’s see - what would be next on the list?
Banning affirmative action? Do we dare dream?
They are PERFECT degrees for going into government.
You can bet that the left actively recruits people with these degrees to be in “civil service”.
I hope she signs it.
In my humble opinion, these “courses” should be forbidden and declared UNAMERICAN.
It’s fine and dandy to devote time to French, Japanese, Jamacian, Honduran, Rhodesian (yeah I know it’s now Zimbabwe), Ukranian HISTORY.
But these so-called courses are not about the past; they are carving out groups, not only in the future but in the here and right now. These are feeder operations for the grievance industry and we should stomp them out like a slow bug trying to cross the freeway.
And btw, ditto for the gender studies and the LGBT bunch.
Enough is enough.
I may have to join you. Go Arizona!!
Battle on Xena!
I mean Arizona!
I agree. Let’s get back to educating students and not indoctrinating them.
Arizona is sounding better and better.
JAN BREWER FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!
This has got to be embarrassing for McCain.
Whatever will the Dems so if the public are united Americans.
I noticed that Barry was wearing a garlic necklace this morning. This sudden outbreak of raging good sense in the middle class must scare the poop out of our rulers.
I think that AZ just topped TX as the state I would most like to move to.
Fight the power!
I wonder...does this bill also apply to the State Universities? If not, why not?
I’m really getting to love Arizona.
I think that AZ just topped TX as the state I would most like to move to.
Fight the power!
...MrB....I stand corrected sir....you are exactly right...what better degree for a Leftist bureaucrat to have in say the Civil Rights division of HUD?
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