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It's just beyond comprehension: Arizona has moved to eliminate ethnic studies courses and to purge schools of teachers with accents.
From the first article:
… Arizona's new immigration law is just about crime, its supporters say, but given that the state's new education policy equates ethnic studies programs with high treason, they may not be using the commonly accepted definition of "crime."
Under the ban, sent to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer by the state legislature Thursday, schools will lose state funding if they offer 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."
As ThinkProgress notes, the Tucson Unified School District's popular Mexican-American studies department is the target here. The state superintendent charges that the program exhibits "ethnic chauvinism." …
It is particularly sickening that an education policy regime now based on white "nativist" racial hatred would accuse a Mexican-American studies department of "ethnic chauvinism".
Does this mean that people with British accents can no longer teach or does this just apply to people with hispanic accents? The good news is that these additional laws may be the additional rope that AZ needs to hang itself in front of the judiciary.
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