Sombrero tip to Porter Corn for this latest bit of Arizona stupidity as reported by Three Sonorans:
… Tucson High School has just banned Advanced Spanish Classes (7,8) for all of its students!
One of the Spanish teachers said that Dr. Clash said these classes are « too exclusive. »
Now get this; French 7-8 is still being allowed!
And here we have the same history being replayed one year later after TUSD bans American History / Mexican American Perspectives but allows European History to be taught for American history credit.
Clash seems to have justified this by allowing one class to remain, the AP Spanish class. There’s one major problem though; the school of nearly 3000 students will only have one section of it available, and it coincides with mariachi class.
One freshman student was concerned at how her advanced bilingualism would actually hurt her chances of going to college thanks to Dr. Clash.
« I’m taking Spanish 5-6 right now, and there’s nothing left for me to take next year since I’m in mariachi which is offered at the same time as AP Spanish which is all that is left. The UA requires at least two-years of foreign language classes, and because of Dr. Clash’s policy I don’t know what I will do. »
The student added « This is unfair because French 7-8 is still being offered. »
Indeed, living one hour away from the border, Spanish is crucial in the Old Pueblo. Perhaps that is why TUSD continues to ban Mexican American History, our books, and now our language. That will keep us behind long enough until either ICE deports us, or our youth fall into the private-prison pipeline.
Filed under: Arizona, Education and educators, Gringo(landia), Spanish/Spanglish Tagged: bone-headed stupidity, Generic idiots, Stupid gringos, WTF??
