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California To Have Ethnic Studies Curriculum For High School Graduation?

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First draft of state ethnic studies curriculum '''falls short,''' board says - Los Angeles Times

Allen said he fully supports an ethnic studies requirement for high school graduation and believes it’s appropriate for the focus to remain on California’s four major communities of color: African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and indigenous communities.


But he said the current draft is too narrowly drawn — excluding the word “anti-Semitism” from the glossary, he said, even as it appropriately includes “Islamophobia.” He also said it fails to cover the experiences of other ethnic communities, such as Armenians, Italians and Irish, who also suffered bigotry.

Other critics say the draft curriculum is biased against capitalism and filled with too much political correctness, including the glossary, which includes terms such as “herstory and “hxrstory” instead of “history” and “cisheteropatriarchy.”

Yet such precise words are vital to the academic language, said R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, who co-chaired the ethnic studies model curriculum advisory committee.

“ ‘Cisheteropatriarchy': a system of male, straight, conforming-to-assigned sex system of power. What’s a better term to describe that? Or does naming the experiences of those who experience this marginalization still not matter?” said Cuauhtin, who co-wrote the book “Rethinking Ethnic Studies.”
This is insane. When I attended high school in LA, there was no requirement for an ethnic studies subject prior to graduation. How is this going to help graduates find jobs? In what way could this have any sort of meaningful impact? Good lord what has California turned into? :doh
 
First draft of state ethnic studies curriculum '''falls short,''' board says - Los Angeles Times




This is insane. When I attended high school in LA, there was no requirement for an ethnic studies subject prior to graduation. How is this going to help graduates find jobs? In what way could this have any sort of meaningful impact? Good lord what has California turned into? :doh

Mostly push-back to the racism that running rampant in DC, and elsewhere. Unfortunately that what politics has become. Don't govern, just piss the other side off as much as you can. Trump is making that into an art form..

Ken Cuccinelli talking about the poem on the Statue of Liberty.

“Well, of course that poem was referring back to people coming from Europe where they had class-based societies,”

In other words.. White people only...
 
Mostly push-back to the racism that running rampant in DC, and elsewhere. Unfortunately that what politics has become. Don't govern, just piss the other side off as much as you can. Trump is making that into an art form..

Ken Cuccinelli talking about the poem on the Statue of Liberty.



In other words.. White people only...

Well Im not denying that racism doesnt exist, it does, but for schools to start indoctrinating children this way, to force them to take these kinds of courses or they dont graduate... is bonkers. :cuckoo:
 
Well Im not denying that racism doesnt exist, it does, but for schools to start indoctrinating children this way, to force them to take these kinds of courses or they dont graduate... is bonkers. :cuckoo:

I'm saying it might not have much to do with racism, might mostly be California is taking a page of Trump and the GOP governing by revenge..

Just look at the way McConnell now gloats about holding up Garlands nomination. And holding up every bill in the Senate now. Revenge, piss off the other side, then gloat.
 
First draft of state ethnic studies curriculum '''falls short,''' board says - Los Angeles Times




This is insane. When I attended high school in LA, there was no requirement for an ethnic studies subject prior to graduation. How is this going to help graduates find jobs? In what way could this have any sort of meaningful impact? Good lord what has California turned into? :doh

California government and schools are run by corporate fascists, essentially Nazis who want to require children required to recite and promise allegiance to their corporate fascist agenda as a condition of graduation.
 
Good lord what has California turned into? :doh

Whether you agree or disagree with it, PC is going more and more mainstream with every year, which has been going on for a long time now, and doesn't seem to be slowing down. I think maybe what you're scoffing at will be considered required reading for anyone in a workplace situation in the civilized world. Probably good that they learn now, rather than in some sensitivity training class as part of some disciplinary action on the part of their employers.
 
It appears that 'ethnic' in this case is a synonym for colored people, which is a common occurrence: whites lack ethnicity.

Beyond that, I wonder if the curriculum about "ethnic" colored people centers around how they were treated by white people, or if whites factor heavily in the "ethnic" curriculum. Would ethnic people be ethnic in the absence of whites?

I'd like to see an ethnic (colored) curriculum focus on the subject: the colored people themselves - no white people. They could measure the facial features of blacks, Asians, compare hair structure and other racial biology. This would be the proper application of an "ethnic" study.
 
First draft of state ethnic studies curriculum '''falls short,''' board says - Los Angeles Times




This is insane. When I attended high school in LA, there was no requirement for an ethnic studies subject prior to graduation. How is this going to help graduates find jobs? In what way could this have any sort of meaningful impact? Good lord what has California turned into? :doh

We had (and are revisiting) this issue in Tucson. The city schools implemented an Ethnic Studies program (Mexican-America Studies) which substituted for the statewide history requirement. Basically, teachers were allowed to teach the history of Mexico inn the American southwest and how the US manipulated, coerced and stole Mexican lands in an effort to push the borders to the Pacific. That qualified as US history.
 
Whether you agree or disagree with it, PC is going more and more mainstream with every year, which has been going on for a long time now, and doesn't seem to be slowing down. I think maybe what you're scoffing at will be considered required reading for anyone in a workplace situation in the civilized world. Probably good that they learn now, rather than in some sensitivity training class as part of some disciplinary action on the part of their employers.

So what youre saying is that anyone who doesnt attend these classes will end up in a racist incident at their workplace? Come on... :roll:
 
So what youre saying is that anyone who doesnt attend these classes will end up in a racist incident at their workplace? Come on... :roll:

No, that's not what I'm saying...you always pick the weirdest things to take away... :lol:
 
Well Im not denying that racism doesnt exist, it does, but for schools to start indoctrinating children this way, to force them to take these kinds of courses or they dont graduate... is bonkers. :cuckoo:

This sort of indoctrination approach is what communists do.
 
Whether you agree or disagree with it, PC is going more and more mainstream with every year, which has been going on for a long time now, and doesn't seem to be slowing down. I think maybe what you're scoffing at will be considered required reading for anyone in a workplace situation in the civilized world. Probably good that they learn now, rather than in some sensitivity training class as part of some disciplinary action on the part of their employers.

TRANSLATION: Just surrender your mind to the Left.
 
TRANSLATION: Just surrender your mind to the Left.

Yeah, basically... :shrug: If you can't get along, you'll have to move along. Not saying it's right, just acknowledging reality.

Really, though, what is the danger here? That America will be too nice? lol... I have no idea why the right push so hard against basic manners.
 
Yeah, basically... :shrug: If you can't get along, you'll have to move along. Not saying it's right, just acknowledging reality.

Really, though, what is the danger here? That America will be too nice? lol... I have no idea why the right push so hard against basic manners.

That's not at all what PC is about. It's about political control of language............and thus speech. It erodes free speech.
 
That's not at all what PC is about. It's about political control of language............and thus speech. It erodes free speech.

Only for those who can't speak without being an asshole, I guess... :shrug:

But, for a limited time only (haha), I'm open to the possibility that I might be wrong. Do you have any examples that would illustrate your assertion?
 
First draft of state ethnic studies curriculum '''falls short,''' board says - Los Angeles Times




This is insane. When I attended high school in LA, there was no requirement for an ethnic studies subject prior to graduation. How is this going to help graduates find jobs? In what way could this have any sort of meaningful impact? Good lord what has California turned into? :doh

California’s proposed ethnic studies curriculum

We haven't done anything yet: it still will have to pass by the voters in one form or another.
 
How about making CIVICS curriculum be a requirement for HS graduation?

Considering how ignorant a % of the current generation is about how government works, I'd say that should be a BIGGER priority then PC garbage and race-based stuff.
 
California government and schools are run by corporate fascists, essentially Nazis who want to require children required to recite and promise allegiance to their corporate fascist agenda as a condition of graduation.

I've seen on the tube primary-school children lined up between their desks, hands over hearts, pledging allegiance to a flag.
Guess which country this happened in.
 
We had (and are revisiting) this issue in Tucson. The city schools implemented an Ethnic Studies program (Mexican-America Studies) which substituted for the statewide history requirement. Basically, teachers were allowed to teach the history of Mexico inn the American southwest and how the US manipulated, coerced and stole Mexican lands in an effort to push the borders to the Pacific. That qualified as US history.

It's also what happened. I hate to break it to you but even at the time the Mexican American war was seen by many as little more than land grab by slavers desperate to keep expanding their peculiar institution. .
 
Whether you agree or disagree with it, PC is going more and more mainstream with every year, which has been going on for a long time now, and doesn't seem to be slowing down. I think maybe what you're scoffing at will be considered required reading for anyone in a workplace situation in the civilized world. Probably good that they learn now, rather than in some sensitivity training class as part of some disciplinary action on the part of their employers.

Yes, increasingly corporations take the stance that they own you - not only at work, but your thoughts, your opinions, and regulating ever minute of your life. Progressive Democrats are their ally in this agenda given progressives generally are intolerant to anything and anyone the propaganda outlets (MSM/media/Internet) tell them to be intolerant of as the perfect submissions.
 
That's not at all what PC is about. It's about political control of language............and thus speech. It erodes free speech.

Its more than just censorship. This is also about twisting the historical narrative, making it seem like white males were all misogynistic and racist. While bad things like slavery did happen, the good outweighed the bad- America's unique form of government and capitalism pulled more people out of poverty than any other system before or since. Also, things were different back then, and the negative stuff was eventually overcome- heck, there even was a civil war fought over slavery.
 
First draft of state ethnic studies curriculum '''falls short,''' board says - Los Angeles Times




This is insane. When I attended high school in LA, there was no requirement for an ethnic studies subject prior to graduation. How is this going to help graduates find jobs? In what way could this have any sort of meaningful impact? Good lord what has California turned into? :doh

This is more like shorthand for "we enjoy diversity, while screwing ourselves collectively".
 
Mostly push-back to the racism that running rampant in DC, and elsewhere. Unfortunately that what politics has become. Don't govern, just piss the other side off as much as you can. Trump is making that into an art form..

Ken Cuccinelli talking about the poem on the Statue of Liberty.



In other words.. White people only...

The amount of projection here is just... beautiful to behold.
 
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