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.
You are completely correct. The legals and illegals from Mexico used to be (20-30 years ago) Spanish or mostly Spanish blooded. Today the Mexican legal immigrants still tend to be Spanish. They have more money and have the means to find a way to get here legally. While the border jumpers and illegal aliens from Mexico tend to 100% Indian or mostly Indian who are called Mestizo.
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The Mexican invaders of today are predominately Mestizo and Indian. Guatemalans that get here (by hook or by crook) are very very Indian looking. Probably Mayan. I have been through their neighborhoods
Gee. When I was a kid, TUSD was 95% "non-hispanic white". But back then we were just Americans.
The Sunnyside school district was like 80% "hispanic" then, but of course they were just called Mexicans. Or at least that's what they called themselves.
Fascinating that one Supreme Court decision - plyler v. doe - leads to the wholesale replacement of the American population by a violent, hate filled population bent on overthrowing the United States.
Doncha just luv them All American Supreme Court "Justices"?
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.
Another prime example of how these people will lie, cheat and steal to get their way. Just like most of our politicians.
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