I ♥ Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
I have long held that you could substantially improve the quality of schools by simply eliminating any class that had the word "studies" in its description.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is doing just that -- from
Yahoo/Associated Press:
Arizona gov. signs bill targeting ethnic studies
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill targeting a school district's ethnic studies program, hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure.
State schools chief Tom Horne, who has pushed the bill for years, said he believes the Tucson school district's Mexican-American studies program teaches Latino students that they are oppressed by white people.
Public schools should not be encouraging students to resent a particular race, he said.
"It's just like the old South, and it's long past time that we prohibited it," Horne said.
Very cool -- teaching history is good, teaching separatism and racial chauvinism is not.
There are over 11,000 comments to the Yahoo post -- the usual polarization...
Posted by DaveH at May 12, 2010 10:36 AM