Stop Your Seditious Teachings.

MayorBob.

Posted to Legal on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 06:10:40 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

It sounds like something out of the McCarthy-era Red-hunting days of the 1950s.  But, it is really the 21st century and this time the target isn't communism.  This time the target is anything that detracts in any way from the notion of the US as a melting pot.  If bill working its way through the legislature now gets passed into law, public education in Arizona would be radically changed.  The public schools would be barred from teaching the history of any ethnic or racial minority group.  Any "organization ... based in whole or in part on race-based criteria" would not be allowed to operate on any of the public colleges or universities in the state.  As a matter of fact, anything "considered counter to democracy or Western civilization" would be outlawed in Arizona public schools.

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