{"id":18396,"date":"2010-04-30T13:29:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T19:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=18396"},"modified":"2010-04-30T13:29:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T19:29:29","slug":"whats-gotten-in-to-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=18396","title":{"rendered":"What’s gotten in to Arizona?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mean, who does it think it is, Texas<\/em>? From FOXNews<\/a>, “Arizona Legislature Passes Bill to Curb ‘Chauvanism’ in Ethnic Studies Programs”:<\/p>\n

After making national headlines for a new law on illegal immigrants, the Arizona Legislature passed a bill Thursday that would ban ethnic studies programs in the state that critics say currently advocate separatism and racial preferences. <\/p>\n

The bill, which passed 32-26 in the state House, had been approved by the Senate a day earlier. It now goes to Gov. Jan Brewer for her signature.<\/p>\n

The new bill would make it illegal for a school district to teach 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.” <\/p>\n

The bill stipulates that courses can continue to be taught for Native American pupils in compliance with federal law and does not prohibit English as a second language classes. It also does not prohibit the teaching of the Holocaust or other cases of genocide.<\/p>\n

Schools that fail to abide by the law would have state funds withheld.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“Traditionally, the American public school system has brought together students from different backgrounds and taught them to be Americans and to treat each other as individuals, and not on the basis of their ethnic backgrounds,” [State Superintendent for Public Instruction Tom] Horne said. “This is consistent with the fundamental American value that we are all individuals, not exemplars of whatever ethnic groups we were born into. Ethnic studies programs teach the opposite, and are designed to promote ethnic chauvinism.”<\/p>\n

Horne began fighting in 2007 against the Tucson Unified School District’s program, which he said defied Martin Luther King’s call to judge a person by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Horne claimed the ethnic studies program encourages “ethnic chauvanism,” promotes Latinos to rise up and create a new territory out of the southwestern region of the United States and tries to intimidate conservative teachers in the school system.<\/p>\n

But opponents said the bill would prevent teachers from using an academically proven method of educating students about history. They also argued that the Legislature should not be involved in developing school curriculum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A sticky wicket, this. On the one hand, opponents of the legislation who argue that the legislature should not be involved in developing school curriculum would appear, at first blush, to have a valid point; putting legislatures in charge of creating curricula is a political powder keg — and, in addition to being a way to micromanage education, opens the door to all kinds of potential populist abuses from both sides<\/i> of the political divide.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, school curriculum developed by educational professionals and teachers — whose unions both support and are supported by a partisan affiliation with Democrats — is in many ways already quite politicized, with the pedagogical status quo representing a kind of epistemic closure<\/em> that favors the orthodoxies of the left. That is, it institutionalizes as received truth a politicized version of knowledge built around leftist shibboleths — and in so doing, prevents parents from having much (if any) say about the content of their children’s public<\/i> education.<\/p>\n

Is legislating through the thicket of a the particular political client relationship between Democrats and public educators the best answer? I can’t say.<\/p>\n

But I will say this: Arizonans appear tired of waiting around until such determinations are made — on the relatively sound reasoning that in the meantime, the institutionalization of “progressive” ideas are further breaking down the principles of classical liberalism upon which this country was founded.<\/p>\n

Meaning, were I not a Rockies fan, I’d find myself really pulling for the Diamondbacks these days… <\/p>\n

(h\/t sdferr)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mean, who does it think it is, Texas? From FOXNews, “Arizona Legislature Passes Bill to Curb ‘Chauvanism’ in Ethnic Studies Programs”: After making national headlines for a new law on illegal immigrants, the Arizona Legislature passed a bill Thursday that would ban ethnic studies programs in the state that critics say currently advocate separatism and racial preferences. The bill, which passed 32-26 in the state House, had been approved<\/p>\n

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