Tucson Eliminates Mexican-American Studies Program
The Tucson school district has voted to eliminate the Mexican-American Studies program, much to the chagrin of Mexican-Americans in the city.
The move came after the state threatened to withhold $1 million per month from the district after a court ruled that the program was actually against the law.
“I couldn’t justify seeing $15 million cut from all our students just so less than 1% can take the class,” school board member Miguel Cuevas told FoxNews.com. “And there was no evidence that the classes had any curriculum.”
Indeed, it was a mystery exactly what was being taught. District spokesman Andrew Le Fevre said the classes were poorly supervised and students would get extra credit for things like attending protests.
He also said students were taught how white people oppressed them and held them back, and how America took Mexico's land away.
Fox reports that in the court ruling last summer, the judge said the program violated state law because it was designed primarily for one ethnic group, promoted racial resentment and advocated ethnic solidarity instead of treating students as individuals.
The decision to end the program was not unanimous.
"This is an issue that is not going to go away by this vote," said dissenting board member Adelita Grijalva. "When bad laws are written, they are usually picked up by other states. This is an opportunity to fight a bad law."
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Here are the top 10 reasons why anyone should repudiate the radical open borders, speech-squelching group that has long embraced this studies program: 10. La Raza supports driver’s licenses for illegal aliens. 9. La Raza supports in-state tuition discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding US citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants. 8. La Raza opposes cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state, and federal authorities. 7. La Raza sponsors militant ethnic nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars, including the “Aztlan Academy” in Tucson, AZ, the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, AZ, and Academia Cesar Chavez Charter School in St. Paul, Minn. 6. La Raza gives mainstream cover to a poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), which the late GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized as “a radical racist group…[and] one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a racist nation out of the American West.” 5. La Raza opposes a secure fence on the southern border. 4. Former La Raza president Raul Yzaguirre, Hillary Clinton’s Hispanic outreach advisor said this: “US English is to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks.” He was referring to US English the nation’s oldest, largest citizens’ action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States. La Raza also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding the terms “illegal” and “amnesty.” 3. La Raza is currently leading a smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called for TV and cable TV networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off the airwaves–in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut up their foes. 2. La Raza has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn. 1. The National Council of La Raza means The National Council of “The Race,” for God’s sake. Their signature slogan, chanted at pro-illegal alien rallies from coast to coast, is “La raza unida nunca sera vencida.” “A united [Hispanic] race will never be defeated.”
"“I couldn’t justify seeing $15 million cut from all our students just so less than 1% can take the class,” school board member Miguel Cuevas told FoxNews.com. “And there was no evidence that the classes had any curriculum.”
Indeed, it was a mystery exactly what was being taught. District spokesman Andrew Le Fevre said the classes were poorly supervised and students would get extra credit for things like attending protests."
Based on this, why the heck didn't they wise up and get rid of the program long before a law told them to? Oh yeah, lack of common sense...