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06/18/2008: "Ethnic studies class divides educators/community"
Tom Horne came to tell reporters he thinks the ethnic studies program has racial undertones. At times during his own press conference, the superintendent of Arizona schools could barely finish a sentence.
"This is the rudeness they're taught in ethnic studies. They didn't learn that at home from their parents, they learned it from their ethnic studies teachers to be rude in that way," he says.
"They teach them that they are oppressed. Instead of teaching them as their parents and grandparents believe we came to this country because it's the land of opportunity," he says.
"They teach the kids they live in occupied Mexico, they quote as a role model a guy who says 'kill the gringos," Horne says.
[ All lessons about ethnicity concentrate on oppression by Whites. ]
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