Hispanics Being Taught anti-white, anti-American Revolution in Arizona

Christ, do you seriously BELIEVE they are
going to spout their racist dogma PUBLICLY?

"andy" <ariveria@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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On Feb 24, 1:35 pm, Stuart Jackson <bjackson...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Contact these America haters and give them
> hell:http://instech.tusd.k12.az.us/Raza/index.asp

looked at the website nothing you mention is there
 
"Stuart Jackson" <bjackson445@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Contact these America haters and give them hell:
> http://instech.tusd.k12.az.us/Raza/index.asp

And David Edwardo insists that they are not racists, that raza stands for
"all humans." Uh huh . Wanna buy the Brooklyn Bridge from me?
 
"Stuart Jackson" <bjackson445@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9467eb76-a3fd-48ee-b194-fd7f397bd524@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Contact these America haters and give them hell:
> http://instech.tusd.k12.az.us/Raza/index.asp

And David Edwardo insists that they are not racists, that raza stands for
"all humans." Uh huh . Wanna buy the Brooklyn Bridge from me?
 
"Stuart Jackson" <bjackson445@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9467eb76-a3fd-48ee-b194-fd7f397bd524@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Contact these America haters and give them hell:
> http://instech.tusd.k12.az.us/Raza/index.asp

And David Edwardo insists that they are not racists, that raza stands for
"all humans." Uh huh . Wanna buy the Brooklyn Bridge from me?
 
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:17:44 GMT, "Doug" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

><br549@pobox.com> wrote in message
>news:eek:k4vr3dht92rnvafqd8s71tj24l1k6lon9@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:09:25 -0700, "Iconoclast"
>> <iconoclast@ecoweb.co.zw> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:42:35 -0700
>>>Subject: 'Revolution' one of the R's taught in Tucson
>>>
>>>http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0203vip-maceachern0203.html
>>>
>>>Racism, distrust of U.S. being ingrained by Tucson raza studies
>>>Feb. 3, 2008 12:00 AM
>>>
>>>For the activists of the Ethnic Studies program at Tucson High
>>>School, history teacher John Ward seemed like a useful tool.
>>>
>>>He was a certified teacher with a good academic record. He already
>>>had taught numerous social-studies courses, including Mexican-
>>>American history, by the start of the 2002-03 school year.
>>>
>>>And, despite his Anglo-sounding name, Ward is Hispanic. That was
>>>valuable to them, too.
>>>
>>>
>>>The school administration asked Ward to teach a class in
>>>conjunction with the Tucson Unified School District's nascent
>>>Ethnic Studies program, which recently had set up a pilot project
>>>at Tucson High. As he understood it at first, Ward would be the
>>>"teacher of record," while facilitators from the Ethnic Studies
>>>group would make presentations. But that's not exactly how the
>>>class turned out.
>>>
>>>"I was told it would be a standard history class with a Mexican-
>>>American influence," said Ward, who no longer teaches. "But the
>>>whole inference and tone was anger. (They taught students) that the
>>>United States was and still is a fundamentally racist country in
>>>nature, whose interests are contrary to those of Mexican-American
>>>kids.
>>>
>>>"Individuals in this (Ethnic Studies) department are vehemently
>>>anti-Western culture. They are vehemently opposed to the United
>>>States and its power. They are telling students they are victims
>>>and that they should be angry and rise up."
>>>
>>>Ward is still an important and valuable guy, even though he left
>>>teaching in 2003.
>>>
>>>He is important and valuable because he has witnessed, firsthand,
>>>the caustic nature of a program that, according to its advocates,
>>>is purely academic in nature while being supportive of TUSD's
>>>growing body of Hispanic students.
>>>
>>>And he is important because he is brave.
>>>
>>>I have interviewed several other employees of TUSD in recent weeks,
>>>all of whom have witnessed the program firsthand or who have
>>>discussed the Ethnic Studies program with students taking it. None
>>>of them would speak on the record. All asked that their names not
>>>be used and that any chronicle of their experiences not include
>>>details that could be traced back to them.
>>>
>>>They are fearful. And for good reason.
>>>
>>>"There's a lot of people who know this problem is occurring," one
>>>TUSD employee said. "They won't do anything for two reasons. One,
>>>they know (the program) is so much bigger than they are. And, two,
>>>you're going to be called a racist."
>>>
>>>Despite his heritage, Ward said he was accused of racism after
>>>complaining to Tucson High administration about being used as a
>>>"teacher of record" in behalf of the program known generally as
>>>"raza studies."
>>>
>>>"I began to voice these concerns internally," Ward said, "to
>>>teachers. The situation then went immediately from bad to worse. I
>>>was told I was racist."
>>>
>>>The Ethnic Studies department, he said, took their complaints about
>>>Ward to the TUSD school board.
>>>
>>>A compromise was reached. Ward said he was removed from the class
>>>entirely in March 2003 and reassigned to assist another teacher in
>>>a traditional social-studies class. But the experience, especially
>>>the changes he saw in the students in the class, was seared into
>>>him.
>>>
>>>"By the time I left that class, I saw a change (in the students),"
>>>he said. "An angry tone. They taught them not to trust their
>>>teachers, not to trust the system. They taught them the system
>>>wasn't worth trusting."
>>>
>>>TUSD's Ethnic Studies program first became an issue last fall when
>>>Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, Tom Horne, asked
>>>the district about it. He requested the books and other teaching
>>>materials used in the program.
>>>
>>>District officials objected to Horne's interest, suggesting the
>>>state's highest elected official in charge of public education had
>>>no right to examine course materials used in a public-school
>>>curriculum. They went to the Tucson newspapers, which, in no
>>>uncertain terms, told Horne in editorials to "butt out."
>>>
>>>In Tucson news stories, program director Augustine Romero defended
>>>the program. He said students taking raza studies courses perform
>>>better on standardized tests than most students. He said the
>>>program, which includes about 1,700 TUSD students, helps the
>>>students develop a better sense of self-worth.
>>>
>>>After several weeks, the district finally sent the materials to
>>>Horne. As expected, Horne was not impressed.
>>>
>>>They included texts titled Occupied America and The Pedagogy of
>>>Oppression. Another text, he said, "gloats over the difficulties
>>>our country is having at enforcing its immigration laws."
>>>
>>>"Most of these students' parents or grandparents came to this
>>>country legally because it is the land of opportunity," he said.
>>>"They trust our public schools with their children. We should be
>>>teaching the students that this is the land of opportunity; they
>>>can achieve their ambitions if they work hard.
>>>
>>>"They should not be taught that this is the land of oppression."
>>>
>>>
>>>http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0216macea
>>>chern0217.html
>>>Reach the author at 602-444-8883.
>>>
>>>'Revolution' one of the R's taught in Tucson
>>>Feb. 16, 2008 04:49 PM
>>>
>>>Last in a three-part series.
>>>
>>>Augustine Romero, director of Tucson Unified School District's
>>>ethnic-studies department, is nothing if not candid about his
>>>program.
>>>
>>>Traditional history and civics courses, Romero argues, have "been
>>>highly ineffective to children of color." He has a better way.
>>>
>>>
>>>That better way, as presented to students in Romero's increasingly
>>>influential program, is, effectively, revolution. Or, if that "R-
>>>word" strikes you as too edgy, resistance - a resistance against
>>>history and civics as traditionally taught, which Romero considers
>>>the product of "ultraconservatives."
>>>
>>>"With the ultraconservative orientation, people want to believe
>>>that if you offer a naive, simplistic, color-blind orientation,
>>>that's the only truth.
>>>
>>>"We transcend indoctrination because we offer multiple
>>>perspectives. It's a higher level of thinking."
>>>
>>>If Romero's words sound politically anchored, they should. Romero
>>>happily acknowledges that he and all his instructors are
>>>"progressives," and he is contemptuous of teachers who resist
>>>admitting that all history instruction is political.
>>>
>>>"Our teachers are left-leaning. They are progressives. They're
>>>going to have things (in their courses) that conservatives are not
>>>going to like," he told me.
>>>
>>>"Their concern is that it's not their political orientation. To sit
>>>here and say teachers don't walk into the classroom with a
>>>political orientation, that's the furthest (thing) from the truth."
>>>
>>>Romero is a confident man. Not unlike that self-assured aide-de-
>>>camp of Fidel Castro, Ch? Guevara, whose romantic portrait has been
>>>hung in Romero's ethnic-studies classrooms.
>>>
>>>Ch?, too, believed the world was divided between progressives and
>>>ultraconservative reactionaries, many of whom he imprisoned and
>>>shot.
>>>
>>>In one of Romero's TUSD classrooms, in fact, a video posted for a
>>>time on the Internet Web site YouTube showed at least four separate
>>>posters of the beret-capped Ch? decorating the classroom walls. And
>>>a poster of Pancho Villa. And, yes, one poster of the godfather of
>>>the revolution himself, Fidel.
>>>
>>>Romero's confidence about his program and its future at TUSD is
>>>justified. It is growing rapidly.
>>>
>>>The $2.6 million "ethnic studies" program in the Tucson school
>>>district is an umbrella program for four separate departments:
>>>"raza" (Hispanic) studies, African-American studies, Pan-Asian
>>>studies and Native American studies. Raza studies are by far the
>>>largest.
>>>
>>>At Tucson High School, the department offers 12 separate literature
>>>and history courses. Districtwide, it offers 25 course sections in
>>>four high schools, all at junior and senior levels. According to
>>>Romero, TUSD may offer an "intercultural proficiencies" course next
>>>fall to freshmen. And, he adds, it may be a required course.
>>>
>>>Romero's program has raised some eyebrows. State Superintendent of
>>>Public Instruction Tom Horne, who had a devil of a time even
>>>learning about the program's curriculum, has seen the program's
>>>texts (at last). He concludes they are steeped in leftist ideology
>>>and race-based resentment.
>>>
>>>But the real horrors of Romero's program are closer to home.
>>>
>>>In the past several weeks, messages have filtered out from teachers
>>>and other TUSD employees (some directed to Horne; others who have
>>>contacted me, following two previous columns on this subject) about
>>>what an officially recognized resentment-based program does to a
>>>high school.
>>>
>>>In a word, it creates fear.
>>>
>>>Teachers and counselors are being called before their school
>>>principals and even the district school board and accused of being
>>>racists. And with a cadre of self-acknowledged "progressive"
>>>political activists in the ethnic-studies department on the hunt,
>>>the race transgressors are multiplying.
>>>
>>>One school counselor, who wrote to Horne, described an entire
>>>counseling department being decried as a racist after one of
>>>Romero's activists saw an "innocuous notation" on a draft paper
>>>drawn up from a department brain-storming session.
>>>
>>>The ethnic-studies teacher "grossly misinterpreted" the notation to
>>>have racist meaning, the counselor said. The teacher wrote a letter
>>>to the parents of his students "telling them the school's
>>>counselors are racist" and encouraged his students to sign the
>>>letter.
>>>
>>>"I can tell you that the weeks that followed were difficult ones
>>>for the counselors," the TUSD school counselor wrote.
>>>
>>>"There were many tears. Most of us lost sleep. All of us
>>>experienced heightened levels of anxiety. Through no fault of our
>>>own, we were being perceived differently by our students and their
>>>parents."
>>>
>>>Ethnic-studies director Romero points to the confidence his program
>>>instills in its students. And, allegedly, the better grades they
>>>get, once imbued with his program's "multiple perspectives."
>>>
>>>But to every revolution - or, if you must, every resistance to
>>>oppressors - there is a dark side. There are victims.
>>>
>>>Ch? would understand.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>STAY INFORMED GO TO http://www.rescuewithoutborders.org
>>>SHERIFFS JOE'S ILLEGAL'S HOTLINE NUMBER (602)876- 4154
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional
>>>maturity." - Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
>>>
>>
>> I see that you're still painting with that broad brush, racist ****.
>> Your rednecked, trailer trash parents must be very proud of the scum
>> that they spawned.
>
>BR, did you read the article? I seriously doubt you would support the
>educational programs depicted in the article. Do you have any comment
>on the articles Icon posted? Inculcating hatred and a oppressive, distorted
>view of the US in kids in public schools doesn't seem like a good idea to
>me.
>


I don't support that sort of indoctrination.

However, did YOU read the subject line and think about it?

I don't think that you did, and if it slips by you, what is the
prognosis?
 
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:17:44 GMT, "Doug" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

><br549@pobox.com> wrote in message
>news:eek:k4vr3dht92rnvafqd8s71tj24l1k6lon9@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:09:25 -0700, "Iconoclast"
>> <iconoclast@ecoweb.co.zw> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:42:35 -0700
>>>Subject: 'Revolution' one of the R's taught in Tucson
>>>
>>>http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0203vip-maceachern0203.html
>>>
>>>Racism, distrust of U.S. being ingrained by Tucson raza studies
>>>Feb. 3, 2008 12:00 AM
>>>
>>>For the activists of the Ethnic Studies program at Tucson High
>>>School, history teacher John Ward seemed like a useful tool.
>>>
>>>He was a certified teacher with a good academic record. He already
>>>had taught numerous social-studies courses, including Mexican-
>>>American history, by the start of the 2002-03 school year.
>>>
>>>And, despite his Anglo-sounding name, Ward is Hispanic. That was
>>>valuable to them, too.
>>>
>>>
>>>The school administration asked Ward to teach a class in
>>>conjunction with the Tucson Unified School District's nascent
>>>Ethnic Studies program, which recently had set up a pilot project
>>>at Tucson High. As he understood it at first, Ward would be the
>>>"teacher of record," while facilitators from the Ethnic Studies
>>>group would make presentations. But that's not exactly how the
>>>class turned out.
>>>
>>>"I was told it would be a standard history class with a Mexican-
>>>American influence," said Ward, who no longer teaches. "But the
>>>whole inference and tone was anger. (They taught students) that the
>>>United States was and still is a fundamentally racist country in
>>>nature, whose interests are contrary to those of Mexican-American
>>>kids.
>>>
>>>"Individuals in this (Ethnic Studies) department are vehemently
>>>anti-Western culture. They are vehemently opposed to the United
>>>States and its power. They are telling students they are victims
>>>and that they should be angry and rise up."
>>>
>>>Ward is still an important and valuable guy, even though he left
>>>teaching in 2003.
>>>
>>>He is important and valuable because he has witnessed, firsthand,
>>>the caustic nature of a program that, according to its advocates,
>>>is purely academic in nature while being supportive of TUSD's
>>>growing body of Hispanic students.
>>>
>>>And he is important because he is brave.
>>>
>>>I have interviewed several other employees of TUSD in recent weeks,
>>>all of whom have witnessed the program firsthand or who have
>>>discussed the Ethnic Studies program with students taking it. None
>>>of them would speak on the record. All asked that their names not
>>>be used and that any chronicle of their experiences not include
>>>details that could be traced back to them.
>>>
>>>They are fearful. And for good reason.
>>>
>>>"There's a lot of people who know this problem is occurring," one
>>>TUSD employee said. "They won't do anything for two reasons. One,
>>>they know (the program) is so much bigger than they are. And, two,
>>>you're going to be called a racist."
>>>
>>>Despite his heritage, Ward said he was accused of racism after
>>>complaining to Tucson High administration about being used as a
>>>"teacher of record" in behalf of the program known generally as
>>>"raza studies."
>>>
>>>"I began to voice these concerns internally," Ward said, "to
>>>teachers. The situation then went immediately from bad to worse. I
>>>was told I was racist."
>>>
>>>The Ethnic Studies department, he said, took their complaints about
>>>Ward to the TUSD school board.
>>>
>>>A compromise was reached. Ward said he was removed from the class
>>>entirely in March 2003 and reassigned to assist another teacher in
>>>a traditional social-studies class. But the experience, especially
>>>the changes he saw in the students in the class, was seared into
>>>him.
>>>
>>>"By the time I left that class, I saw a change (in the students),"
>>>he said. "An angry tone. They taught them not to trust their
>>>teachers, not to trust the system. They taught them the system
>>>wasn't worth trusting."
>>>
>>>TUSD's Ethnic Studies program first became an issue last fall when
>>>Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, Tom Horne, asked
>>>the district about it. He requested the books and other teaching
>>>materials used in the program.
>>>
>>>District officials objected to Horne's interest, suggesting the
>>>state's highest elected official in charge of public education had
>>>no right to examine course materials used in a public-school
>>>curriculum. They went to the Tucson newspapers, which, in no
>>>uncertain terms, told Horne in editorials to "butt out."
>>>
>>>In Tucson news stories, program director Augustine Romero defended
>>>the program. He said students taking raza studies courses perform
>>>better on standardized tests than most students. He said the
>>>program, which includes about 1,700 TUSD students, helps the
>>>students develop a better sense of self-worth.
>>>
>>>After several weeks, the district finally sent the materials to
>>>Horne. As expected, Horne was not impressed.
>>>
>>>They included texts titled Occupied America and The Pedagogy of
>>>Oppression. Another text, he said, "gloats over the difficulties
>>>our country is having at enforcing its immigration laws."
>>>
>>>"Most of these students' parents or grandparents came to this
>>>country legally because it is the land of opportunity," he said.
>>>"They trust our public schools with their children. We should be
>>>teaching the students that this is the land of opportunity; they
>>>can achieve their ambitions if they work hard.
>>>
>>>"They should not be taught that this is the land of oppression."
>>>
>>>
>>>http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0216macea
>>>chern0217.html
>>>Reach the author at 602-444-8883.
>>>
>>>'Revolution' one of the R's taught in Tucson
>>>Feb. 16, 2008 04:49 PM
>>>
>>>Last in a three-part series.
>>>
>>>Augustine Romero, director of Tucson Unified School District's
>>>ethnic-studies department, is nothing if not candid about his
>>>program.
>>>
>>>Traditional history and civics courses, Romero argues, have "been
>>>highly ineffective to children of color." He has a better way.
>>>
>>>
>>>That better way, as presented to students in Romero's increasingly
>>>influential program, is, effectively, revolution. Or, if that "R-
>>>word" strikes you as too edgy, resistance - a resistance against
>>>history and civics as traditionally taught, which Romero considers
>>>the product of "ultraconservatives."
>>>
>>>"With the ultraconservative orientation, people want to believe
>>>that if you offer a naive, simplistic, color-blind orientation,
>>>that's the only truth.
>>>
>>>"We transcend indoctrination because we offer multiple
>>>perspectives. It's a higher level of thinking."
>>>
>>>If Romero's words sound politically anchored, they should. Romero
>>>happily acknowledges that he and all his instructors are
>>>"progressives," and he is contemptuous of teachers who resist
>>>admitting that all history instruction is political.
>>>
>>>"Our teachers are left-leaning. They are progressives. They're
>>>going to have things (in their courses) that conservatives are not
>>>going to like," he told me.
>>>
>>>"Their concern is that it's not their political orientation. To sit
>>>here and say teachers don't walk into the classroom with a
>>>political orientation, that's the furthest (thing) from the truth."
>>>
>>>Romero is a confident man. Not unlike that self-assured aide-de-
>>>camp of Fidel Castro, Ch? Guevara, whose romantic portrait has been
>>>hung in Romero's ethnic-studies classrooms.
>>>
>>>Ch?, too, believed the world was divided between progressives and
>>>ultraconservative reactionaries, many of whom he imprisoned and
>>>shot.
>>>
>>>In one of Romero's TUSD classrooms, in fact, a video posted for a
>>>time on the Internet Web site YouTube showed at least four separate
>>>posters of the beret-capped Ch? decorating the classroom walls. And
>>>a poster of Pancho Villa. And, yes, one poster of the godfather of
>>>the revolution himself, Fidel.
>>>
>>>Romero's confidence about his program and its future at TUSD is
>>>justified. It is growing rapidly.
>>>
>>>The $2.6 million "ethnic studies" program in the Tucson school
>>>district is an umbrella program for four separate departments:
>>>"raza" (Hispanic) studies, African-American studies, Pan-Asian
>>>studies and Native American studies. Raza studies are by far the
>>>largest.
>>>
>>>At Tucson High School, the department offers 12 separate literature
>>>and history courses. Districtwide, it offers 25 course sections in
>>>four high schools, all at junior and senior levels. According to
>>>Romero, TUSD may offer an "intercultural proficiencies" course next
>>>fall to freshmen. And, he adds, it may be a required course.
>>>
>>>Romero's program has raised some eyebrows. State Superintendent of
>>>Public Instruction Tom Horne, who had a devil of a time even
>>>learning about the program's curriculum, has seen the program's
>>>texts (at last). He concludes they are steeped in leftist ideology
>>>and race-based resentment.
>>>
>>>But the real horrors of Romero's program are closer to home.
>>>
>>>In the past several weeks, messages have filtered out from teachers
>>>and other TUSD employees (some directed to Horne; others who have
>>>contacted me, following two previous columns on this subject) about
>>>what an officially recognized resentment-based program does to a
>>>high school.
>>>
>>>In a word, it creates fear.
>>>
>>>Teachers and counselors are being called before their school
>>>principals and even the district school board and accused of being
>>>racists. And with a cadre of self-acknowledged "progressive"
>>>political activists in the ethnic-studies department on the hunt,
>>>the race transgressors are multiplying.
>>>
>>>One school counselor, who wrote to Horne, described an entire
>>>counseling department being decried as a racist after one of
>>>Romero's activists saw an "innocuous notation" on a draft paper
>>>drawn up from a department brain-storming session.
>>>
>>>The ethnic-studies teacher "grossly misinterpreted" the notation to
>>>have racist meaning, the counselor said. The teacher wrote a letter
>>>to the parents of his students "telling them the school's
>>>counselors are racist" and encouraged his students to sign the
>>>letter.
>>>
>>>"I can tell you that the weeks that followed were difficult ones
>>>for the counselors," the TUSD school counselor wrote.
>>>
>>>"There were many tears. Most of us lost sleep. All of us
>>>experienced heightened levels of anxiety. Through no fault of our
>>>own, we were being perceived differently by our students and their
>>>parents."
>>>
>>>Ethnic-studies director Romero points to the confidence his program
>>>instills in its students. And, allegedly, the better grades they
>>>get, once imbued with his program's "multiple perspectives."
>>>
>>>But to every revolution - or, if you must, every resistance to
>>>oppressors - there is a dark side. There are victims.
>>>
>>>Ch? would understand.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>STAY INFORMED GO TO http://www.rescuewithoutborders.org
>>>SHERIFFS JOE'S ILLEGAL'S HOTLINE NUMBER (602)876- 4154
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional
>>>maturity." - Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
>>>
>>
>> I see that you're still painting with that broad brush, racist ****.
>> Your rednecked, trailer trash parents must be very proud of the scum
>> that they spawned.
>
>BR, did you read the article? I seriously doubt you would support the
>educational programs depicted in the article. Do you have any comment
>on the articles Icon posted? Inculcating hatred and a oppressive, distorted
>view of the US in kids in public schools doesn't seem like a good idea to
>me.
>


I don't support that sort of indoctrination.

However, did YOU read the subject line and think about it?

I don't think that you did, and if it slips by you, what is the
prognosis?
 
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:17:44 GMT, "Doug" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

><br549@pobox.com> wrote in message
>news:eek:k4vr3dht92rnvafqd8s71tj24l1k6lon9@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:09:25 -0700, "Iconoclast"
>> <iconoclast@ecoweb.co.zw> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:42:35 -0700
>>>Subject: 'Revolution' one of the R's taught in Tucson
>>>
>>>http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0203vip-maceachern0203.html
>>>
>>>Racism, distrust of U.S. being ingrained by Tucson raza studies
>>>Feb. 3, 2008 12:00 AM
>>>
>>>For the activists of the Ethnic Studies program at Tucson High
>>>School, history teacher John Ward seemed like a useful tool.
>>>
>>>He was a certified teacher with a good academic record. He already
>>>had taught numerous social-studies courses, including Mexican-
>>>American history, by the start of the 2002-03 school year.
>>>
>>>And, despite his Anglo-sounding name, Ward is Hispanic. That was
>>>valuable to them, too.
>>>
>>>
>>>The school administration asked Ward to teach a class in
>>>conjunction with the Tucson Unified School District's nascent
>>>Ethnic Studies program, which recently had set up a pilot project
>>>at Tucson High. As he understood it at first, Ward would be the
>>>"teacher of record," while facilitators from the Ethnic Studies
>>>group would make presentations. But that's not exactly how the
>>>class turned out.
>>>
>>>"I was told it would be a standard history class with a Mexican-
>>>American influence," said Ward, who no longer teaches. "But the
>>>whole inference and tone was anger. (They taught students) that the
>>>United States was and still is a fundamentally racist country in
>>>nature, whose interests are contrary to those of Mexican-American
>>>kids.
>>>
>>>"Individuals in this (Ethnic Studies) department are vehemently
>>>anti-Western culture. They are vehemently opposed to the United
>>>States and its power. They are telling students they are victims
>>>and that they should be angry and rise up."
>>>
>>>Ward is still an important and valuable guy, even though he left
>>>teaching in 2003.
>>>
>>>He is important and valuable because he has witnessed, firsthand,
>>>the caustic nature of a program that, according to its advocates,
>>>is purely academic in nature while being supportive of TUSD's
>>>growing body of Hispanic students.
>>>
>>>And he is important because he is brave.
>>>
>>>I have interviewed several other employees of TUSD in recent weeks,
>>>all of whom have witnessed the program firsthand or who have
>>>discussed the Ethnic Studies program with students taking it. None
>>>of them would speak on the record. All asked that their names not
>>>be used and that any chronicle of their experiences not include
>>>details that could be traced back to them.
>>>
>>>They are fearful. And for good reason.
>>>
>>>"There's a lot of people who know this problem is occurring," one
>>>TUSD employee said. "They won't do anything for two reasons. One,
>>>they know (the program) is so much bigger than they are. And, two,
>>>you're going to be called a racist."
>>>
>>>Despite his heritage, Ward said he was accused of racism after
>>>complaining to Tucson High administration about being used as a
>>>"teacher of record" in behalf of the program known generally as
>>>"raza studies."
>>>
>>>"I began to voice these concerns internally," Ward said, "to
>>>teachers. The situation then went immediately from bad to worse. I
>>>was told I was racist."
>>>
>>>The Ethnic Studies department, he said, took their complaints about
>>>Ward to the TUSD school board.
>>>
>>>A compromise was reached. Ward said he was removed from the class
>>>entirely in March 2003 and reassigned to assist another teacher in
>>>a traditional social-studies class. But the experience, especially
>>>the changes he saw in the students in the class, was seared into
>>>him.
>>>
>>>"By the time I left that class, I saw a change (in the students),"
>>>he said. "An angry tone. They taught them not to trust their
>>>teachers, not to trust the system. They taught them the system
>>>wasn't worth trusting."
>>>
>>>TUSD's Ethnic Studies program first became an issue last fall when
>>>Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, Tom Horne, asked
>>>the district about it. He requested the books and other teaching
>>>materials used in the program.
>>>
>>>District officials objected to Horne's interest, suggesting the
>>>state's highest elected official in charge of public education had
>>>no right to examine course materials used in a public-school
>>>curriculum. They went to the Tucson newspapers, which, in no
>>>uncertain terms, told Horne in editorials to "butt out."
>>>
>>>In Tucson news stories, program director Augustine Romero defended
>>>the program. He said students taking raza studies courses perform
>>>better on standardized tests than most students. He said the
>>>program, which includes about 1,700 TUSD students, helps the
>>>students develop a better sense of self-worth.
>>>
>>>After several weeks, the district finally sent the materials to
>>>Horne. As expected, Horne was not impressed.
>>>
>>>They included texts titled Occupied America and The Pedagogy of
>>>Oppression. Another text, he said, "gloats over the difficulties
>>>our country is having at enforcing its immigration laws."
>>>
>>>"Most of these students' parents or grandparents came to this
>>>country legally because it is the land of opportunity," he said.
>>>"They trust our public schools with their children. We should be
>>>teaching the students that this is the land of opportunity; they
>>>can achieve their ambitions if they work hard.
>>>
>>>"They should not be taught that this is the land of oppression."
>>>
>>>
>>>http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0216macea
>>>chern0217.html
>>>Reach the author at 602-444-8883.
>>>
>>>'Revolution' one of the R's taught in Tucson
>>>Feb. 16, 2008 04:49 PM
>>>
>>>Last in a three-part series.
>>>
>>>Augustine Romero, director of Tucson Unified School District's
>>>ethnic-studies department, is nothing if not candid about his
>>>program.
>>>
>>>Traditional history and civics courses, Romero argues, have "been
>>>highly ineffective to children of color." He has a better way.
>>>
>>>
>>>That better way, as presented to students in Romero's increasingly
>>>influential program, is, effectively, revolution. Or, if that "R-
>>>word" strikes you as too edgy, resistance - a resistance against
>>>history and civics as traditionally taught, which Romero considers
>>>the product of "ultraconservatives."
>>>
>>>"With the ultraconservative orientation, people want to believe
>>>that if you offer a naive, simplistic, color-blind orientation,
>>>that's the only truth.
>>>
>>>"We transcend indoctrination because we offer multiple
>>>perspectives. It's a higher level of thinking."
>>>
>>>If Romero's words sound politically anchored, they should. Romero
>>>happily acknowledges that he and all his instructors are
>>>"progressives," and he is contemptuous of teachers who resist
>>>admitting that all history instruction is political.
>>>
>>>"Our teachers are left-leaning. They are progressives. They're
>>>going to have things (in their courses) that conservatives are not
>>>going to like," he told me.
>>>
>>>"Their concern is that it's not their political orientation. To sit
>>>here and say teachers don't walk into the classroom with a
>>>political orientation, that's the furthest (thing) from the truth."
>>>
>>>Romero is a confident man. Not unlike that self-assured aide-de-
>>>camp of Fidel Castro, Ch? Guevara, whose romantic portrait has been
>>>hung in Romero's ethnic-studies classrooms.
>>>
>>>Ch?, too, believed the world was divided between progressives and
>>>ultraconservative reactionaries, many of whom he imprisoned and
>>>shot.
>>>
>>>In one of Romero's TUSD classrooms, in fact, a video posted for a
>>>time on the Internet Web site YouTube showed at least four separate
>>>posters of the beret-capped Ch? decorating the classroom walls. And
>>>a poster of Pancho Villa. And, yes, one poster of the godfather of
>>>the revolution himself, Fidel.
>>>
>>>Romero's confidence about his program and its future at TUSD is
>>>justified. It is growing rapidly.
>>>
>>>The $2.6 million "ethnic studies" program in the Tucson school
>>>district is an umbrella program for four separate departments:
>>>"raza" (Hispanic) studies, African-American studies, Pan-Asian
>>>studies and Native American studies. Raza studies are by far the
>>>largest.
>>>
>>>At Tucson High School, the department offers 12 separate literature
>>>and history courses. Districtwide, it offers 25 course sections in
>>>four high schools, all at junior and senior levels. According to
>>>Romero, TUSD may offer an "intercultural proficiencies" course next
>>>fall to freshmen. And, he adds, it may be a required course.
>>>
>>>Romero's program has raised some eyebrows. State Superintendent of
>>>Public Instruction Tom Horne, who had a devil of a time even
>>>learning about the program's curriculum, has seen the program's
>>>texts (at last). He concludes they are steeped in leftist ideology
>>>and race-based resentment.
>>>
>>>But the real horrors of Romero's program are closer to home.
>>>
>>>In the past several weeks, messages have filtered out from teachers
>>>and other TUSD employees (some directed to Horne; others who have
>>>contacted me, following two previous columns on this subject) about
>>>what an officially recognized resentment-based program does to a
>>>high school.
>>>
>>>In a word, it creates fear.
>>>
>>>Teachers and counselors are being called before their school
>>>principals and even the district school board and accused of being
>>>racists. And with a cadre of self-acknowledged "progressive"
>>>political activists in the ethnic-studies department on the hunt,
>>>the race transgressors are multiplying.
>>>
>>>One school counselor, who wrote to Horne, described an entire
>>>counseling department being decried as a racist after one of
>>>Romero's activists saw an "innocuous notation" on a draft paper
>>>drawn up from a department brain-storming session.
>>>
>>>The ethnic-studies teacher "grossly misinterpreted" the notation to
>>>have racist meaning, the counselor said. The teacher wrote a letter
>>>to the parents of his students "telling them the school's
>>>counselors are racist" and encouraged his students to sign the
>>>letter.
>>>
>>>"I can tell you that the weeks that followed were difficult ones
>>>for the counselors," the TUSD school counselor wrote.
>>>
>>>"There were many tears. Most of us lost sleep. All of us
>>>experienced heightened levels of anxiety. Through no fault of our
>>>own, we were being perceived differently by our students and their
>>>parents."
>>>
>>>Ethnic-studies director Romero points to the confidence his program
>>>instills in its students. And, allegedly, the better grades they
>>>get, once imbued with his program's "multiple perspectives."
>>>
>>>But to every revolution - or, if you must, every resistance to
>>>oppressors - there is a dark side. There are victims.
>>>
>>>Ch? would understand.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>STAY INFORMED GO TO http://www.rescuewithoutborders.org
>>>SHERIFFS JOE'S ILLEGAL'S HOTLINE NUMBER (602)876- 4154
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional
>>>maturity." - Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
>>>
>>
>> I see that you're still painting with that broad brush, racist ****.
>> Your rednecked, trailer trash parents must be very proud of the scum
>> that they spawned.
>
>BR, did you read the article? I seriously doubt you would support the
>educational programs depicted in the article. Do you have any comment
>on the articles Icon posted? Inculcating hatred and a oppressive, distorted
>view of the US in kids in public schools doesn't seem like a good idea to
>me.
>


I don't support that sort of indoctrination.

However, did YOU read the subject line and think about it?

I don't think that you did, and if it slips by you, what is the
prognosis?
 

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