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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.
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? :dohOther 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.”