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Tucson Students Confront Loss of Their Chicano Studies Class On Wednesday, 28 seventh- and eighth-graders at Tucson’s Mansfeld Middle School followed their familiar routine. They walked into Room 306, sat at their desks and greeted teacher Rene Martinez. But the class they’d known the day before had vanished. No longer can the students discuss Chicano perspectives on history. And no longer can Martinez teach Mexican American studies. After the Tucson Unified School District board voted late Tuesday to suspend the controversial classes to avoid losing more than $14 million in state aid, the students’ world shifted. Read More at The LA Times Photo: James S. Wood via latimes

Tucson Students Confront Loss of Their Chicano Studies Class

On Wednesday, 28 seventh- and eighth-graders at Tucson’s Mansfeld Middle School followed their familiar routine. They walked into Room 306, sat at their desks and greeted teacher Rene Martinez.

But the class they’d known the day before had vanished.

No longer can the students discuss Chicano perspectives on history. And no longer can Martinez teach Mexican American studies.

After the Tucson Unified School District board voted late Tuesday to suspend the controversial classes to avoid losing more than $14 million in state aid, the students’ world shifted.

Read More at The LA Times

Photo: James S. Wood

via latimes

#Arizona  #Chicano Studies  
∞  01/12/12 at 10:05pm via Los Angeles Times
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    The New York Times printed something about this when it all started, kind of awhile ago. I made my students read the...
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    standing up for what is right. Lawmakers need to follow their lead.
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    Wow, I never even encountered any Ethnic...my education until I started college.
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    I am glad that even 7th and 8th graders are doing what others are afraid to do.
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    Sheer fuckery. No one is attacking any of the other ethnic studies classes.
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    Burning the codices, killing us by the scores, staining our name, and smashing our idols wasn’t enough, you see. It...