Comments on: Ethnic Studies banned while religious studies are promoted in Tucson

By: Truth08

Truth08 — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:18:53 +0000

More wingnut attempts at total control of how to cast big Government (by demonizing MAS then pushing for non-secular eduation) —then spin it .. Somehow making the left the cause and shift the blame..

MAS along with every ethnic study program such as Asian and African American Studies should be expanded, not targeted by racism and xenophobes running the GOP machine at the Capitol.

One thing is for sure, you can thank the far right wing loons for waking up the Latino Voting block which is sure to never allow the state to ever have a GOP Governor again..

Obama will win Az., thanks to the bigots..

Az will turn Blue –finally..

Regards,
Truth

By: myriad

myriad — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:57:35 +0000

You’re right, best to wait until the killing starts.

By: leftfield

leftfield — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:47:22 +0000

“the third is just as important as asking annoying questions about the revolution.”

As long as you’re alive, I can’t see why they would need to cover this.

By: Cuauhtemoc

Cuauhtemoc — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:18:55 +0000

You know nothing about MAS or it’s classes. I’m sure you have never taken a Mexican American Studies course at any level or institution. The people who teach MAS are in no way like religious nuts who what Christianity taught in school. TUSD doesn’t really care about their students except when they get bad press, then they try to fix their image , like their doing now.

By: CarolBaker

CarolBaker — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:30:53 +0000

No course called “The Bible and its Influence on Western Culture” can ever be called ‘religiously neutral’. It’s not. It’s slanted toward Christianity. It’s indoctrination of our children. Unless your offering a course that talks about the influence of ALL religions on Western Civilization, it’s nothing more than a bait and switch to have Christianity promoted in our public schools – and the Supreme Court has ruled quite definitively on that. These people trying to indoctrinate our kids should look out. The Supreme Court understood what it was doing. When you open the door for Christianity to be taught, you open the door for Islam to be taught, and we’re pretty sure you’re Islamophobic – so be careful what you wish for.

By: myriad

myriad — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:47:35 +0000

The first is pretty helpful, the second doesn’t matter, and the third is just as important as asking annoying questions about the revolution. The real debate is not between right and left, it’s between those who want students questioning everything and those who want students only questioning the other side. The second group has got the first caught in a crossfire.

By: leftfield

leftfield — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:20:48 +0000

“…to be successful in their lives.”

By “successful”, I assume you mean to get a job, fly the flag on the fourth, and not ask any annoying questions about the system?

By: bill

bill — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:22:19 +0000

And MAS classes deserved to be dismantled for the same reasons Proud’s bill should be shot down. Kids don’t need to be indoctrinated, either by racists or Bible thumpers. The books that were removed from the classrooms are still available to students in their libraries.

Pedicone is worse than Horne. Neither one of them cares about students. The difference is that Pedione is paid more than a quarter of a million bucks a year to see that kids learn what they need to know to be successful in their lives.

By: Tip O'Neill

Tip O'Neill — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:19:04 +0000

> Get out now you scum,,,
But … but … I was born here. I just didn’t subscribe to Jeebus the Barbarian as the founder of the country.
I would go to Marxist Canada if they would let me in,

By: Tip O'Neill

Tip O'Neill — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:16:23 +0000

I’m sure you will find greater support in the Repub party : )