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talkpolitics2010-05-07 12:40 pm
xforge.livejournal.com) wrote in talkpolitics2010-05-07 12:40 pm
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This was a problem?
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."
Was... there formerly a problem with teachers in Arizona teaching classes that promote the overthrow of the US government?
Or any of that?
I'm kinda genuinely curious, in addition to wondering why this needed to be a statewide law. Don't local school boards control curriculum? Wouldn't that be something the school board and presumably the parent-teacher organizations would sorta say... hey can we not be teaching that to our kids please?
Was... there formerly a problem with teachers in Arizona teaching classes that promote the overthrow of the US government?
Or any of that?
I'm kinda genuinely curious, in addition to wondering why this needed to be a statewide law. Don't local school boards control curriculum? Wouldn't that be something the school board and presumably the parent-teacher organizations would sorta say... hey can we not be teaching that to our kids please?