Insidious Latino studies being revived at Tucson schools
Arizona Republic by Doug MacEachern, columnist – Dec. 15, 2012 04:12 PM
It is a persistent rule of governance that the more remote government officials are from the people governed, the more clueless they are about governing.
Nowhere is that more true than in the Tucson Unified School District, where Mexican-American Studies, or MAS, is about to make a comeback, courtesy of our friends from Washington, D.C. In this case, the federal courts.
Really, “comeback” isn’t quite the word for what is about to be foisted on Tucson schoolkids and taxpayers.
It is a political and financial betrayal. It is a seemingly successful conspiracy of idealogues on an epic scale. It is court-ordered education theft.
And, as always, it is made possible by the fact that nobody — except, of course, the manipulative political vultures who are having their way with the poor, mostly Hispanic kids of TUSD — cares enough to stop them. What is happening in Tucson right now can be fairly described as child abandonment. Which I thought was against the law.
There are two ways to describe events in Tucson right now, and I honestly can’t decide which is the more despicable. But they’re both despicable.
One is the legal process, better described as a conspiracy between the oblivious and the activists. Read more here.