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AZ Students Protest Removal of Mexican/American History Classes
Posted: Apr 28, 2011
At the left is the video:
TUCSON -- Rowdy students take over a big Tucson school board meeting in protest.
It's a pretty wild scene -- and it's all over a Mexican-American studies class, a class that teaches history from a Mexican-American perspective.
Here's what's going on.
The governing board of the Tucson Unified School District was supposed to consider a plan that would make the class an elective, rather than a required class, like it is now.
A state law passed in December basically discouraged the classes, saying they segregate students. And this group of students wanted no part of it.
They took over the room, chanted "fight back," and basically ran the governing board out of the meeting.
Security tried to come in and tried to take the students away, but many of them apparently chained themselves together.
This isn't over though. The governing board is going to re-schedule its meeting to decide the fate of the classes.
Another Story:
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed by opponents of a new Arizona law aimed at eliminating the ethnic studies program at the Tucson Unified School District.
Teachers opposed to the crackdown banned together to file the suit Monday. The suit claims the state law violates at least two constitutional amendments.
The lawsuit names outgoing state schools superintendent Tom Horne and the entire State Board of Education as defendants.
Horne has blasted the suit, saying its "fundamentally wrong to divide students up according to their racial group and teach them separately."
Horne says he believes the Tucson school district's Mexican-American studies program teaches Latino students that they are oppressed by white people. He says public schools shouldn't be encouraging students to resent a particular race.
I don't even understand why this is an issue - sm
[ In Reply To ..]What ever happened to immigrants gladly coming to the US and being proud to be a part of this great country? My great grandfather came here from Hungary. He spoke 7 languages...none of them English...but when he came here he learned and spoke it. When my other great grandfather came here from Germany, he learned English and was proud to be here. They assimilated themselves into this country. They didn't make the country change merely because they came from somewhere else. They did not fly their original country's flag once here. They did not argue that their children should be taught from their country's viewpoint.
I'm sorry people but if you don't like the USA, you are more than welcome to leave. I have no problem with schools teaching some history about Mexico but to teach from a Mexican perspective...that is different IMO. If they want to be taught from a Mexican point of view, they know where the border is.
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