Ethnic studies being the class where lib teachers demonize white people.
PICO RIVERA, Calif. – Beginning in 2016, students in California’s El Rancho Unified School District will have to pass an ethnic-studies class before they’re allowed to graduate.
Leaders of the predominately Latino district believe students need to develop ethnic “pride” and “understanding” in order to gain the confidence they’ll need to succeed in college and in their chosen careers, LATimes.com reports.“When students learn about themselves, their history, it gives them self-worth and self-esteem and they do better in school,” Jose Lara, vice president of the El Rancho Board of Education, told LATimes.com.
“We want to make sure that we’re producing students who go to college and are entering fields that Latino students typically don’t go into,” Lara added.
Board President Aurora Villon explained that focusing on students’ differences is “a beautiful way to unite people.”
Actually, Villon couldn’t be more wrong.
An ethnic studies class in the Tucson school district – dedicated to Chicano/Latino stories, feminist and African-American literature, LGBT writings, and “critically conscious hip-hop” – devolved into a propaganda session.
Instead of being educated in their unique cultural heritage, district and state officials deemed that students were being taught to focus on all the wrongs the various ethnic groups had suffered at the hands of the white majority.